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Incidental Focus on Form in English Language Teaching

Incidental Focus on Form in English Language Teaching

Gholami, Javad

Paperback

Linguistics

ISBN10: 3639148932
ISBN13: 9783639148930
Publisher: Blues Kids Of Amer
Published: Apr 30 2009
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
With the advent of communicative language teaching, meaning-oriented and task-based language teaching gained a lot of ground at the expense of deemphasizing the explicit and focused attention to grammar and other formal aspects of language. However, in recent years, there have been numerous calls for integrating communicative language teaching with focus on form instruction. This book explores various aspects of focus on form in general and incidental focus on form in particular. It investigates how teachers in a real EFL context draw attention to form temporarily and incidentally within meaning oriented classes without disrupting the natural flow of communication. Moreover, it provides a critical analysis and modified definition of uptake commonly used to assess the effectiveness of focus on form instruction. Graduate students and researchers in ELT, applied linguistics, classroom conversation analysis and respective fields in linguistics as well as ESL/EFL teachers will find this book highly useful in seeing how a compromise can be made between analytic and synthetic approaches to Second Language Acquisition.

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