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Intake: On Models and Methods for Discovering Learners' Processing of Input

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Craig Chaudron
Craig Chaudron
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University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Abstract

Models of the second language acquisition process have not specifically elaborated on the nature of the learner's perception and processing of target language input, a process known as intake. They have typically failed to specify the mechanisms or variables involved in the intake process or to distinguish between the stages of processing input from perception, to comprehension, to assimilation into an interlanguage grammar. Research and theoretical models from L1 psycholinguistic literature have been neglected. Recent L1 and L2 research on language processing are compared, and experimental methods for eliciting data to confirm them are discussed.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , February 1985 , pp. 1 - 14
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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