Abstract:

VanPatten’s input processing and processing instruction model is an exception among the many innovations inspired by Krashen’s input hypothesis (Krashen, 1982), because it seems to demonstrate it enables learners to acquire accurate grammar (Sheen, 2007). VanPatten accepts the basic role of input and uses ‘input processing’ (IP) for the cognitive processes which occurs when input is understood and integrated into interlanguages. In the present work, VanPatten’s input processing model along with some other scholar’s work on IP is reviewed thoroughly and, as mentioned above, it can be shown that this model could be used as a viable and working model in the classroom.