Professors Catherine Doughty (Georgetown University) and Jessica Williams (University of Illinois at Chicago) have joined with nine other second language acquisition specialists to explore these questions of efficacy of attention to linguistic form in communicative language teaching. This volume will be of critical interest to second/foreign language teachers, SLA researchers, and professors/graduate students in the field of applied linguistics.
Focus on Form in Classroom second language acquisition
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- Nombre de pages301
- PrésentationBroché
- Poids0.445 kg
- Dimensions15,5 cm × 22,5 cm × 1,5 cm
- ISBN0-521-62551-3
- EAN9780521625517
- Date de parution01/03/2004
- ÉditeurCambridge University Press
Résumé
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