Processing Instruction is an approach to grammar instruction for second language learning, contrasting with traditional grammar instruction in its focus on structured input rather than learners' output.

Acknowledgements Preface Part I: Processing Instruction: Theory, Practice and Research 1. VanPatten's Theory of Input Processing 2. Practical Model: Processing instruction 3. Processing instruction: experimental research Part II: Processing Instruction and Discourse 4. Exploring the effects of processing instruction on a discourse-level guided composition with the Spanish subjunctive after the adverb cuando (with Erin M. McNulty) 5. Exploring the effects of processing instruction on discourse-level interpretation tasks with the Japanese passive construction (with Noriko Hikima, Japan Foundation London Language Centre, UK) 6. Exploring the effects of processing instruction on discourse-level interpretation tasks with English past tense 7. Exploring the effects of discourse-level structured input activities with French causative (with Wynne Wong, The Ohio State University, USA) 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index