Focus on Form in Classroom second language acquisition

This volume presents original research and discussion by experts in classroom second language acquisition on the benefits of connecting grammatical form to meaning during primanly communicative tasks. This approach to second language teaching and research has came to be known as focus on form. The authors of the articles contained in this volume argue collectively for the need to move beyond both traditional, grammar-only approaches and purely communicative, experiential language teaching. In doing so, they assess the empirical evidence available far making a number of important pedagogical decisions essential to this innovative approach, including: whether ever to focus on language form ; which linguistic forms to target ; the optimal degree of explicitness of attention in focusing on form ; the appropriate timing of focus on form ; how to integrate focus on form into the second language curriculum