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The Forest for the Trees: Critically...

Longard, Jeffrey S.

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The Forest for the Trees: Critically Rethinking Current Perspectives on Focus on Form and SLA.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Forest for the Trees: Critically Rethinking Current Perspectives on Focus on Form and SLA./
Author:	Longard, Jeffrey S.
Description:	142 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 51-03.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International51-03(E).
Subject:	Language, Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=MR89945
ISBN:	9780494899458

The Forest for the Trees: Critically Rethinking Current Perspectives on Focus on Form and SLA.
Longard, Jeffrey S.

The Forest for the Trees: Critically Rethinking Current Perspectives on Focus on Form and SLA. - 142 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 51-03.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta (Canada), 2012.

Following advancements in linguistics in the 1950s and 1960s, second language teaching and research became dominated by the notion that a second language could be learned as naturally as the first, without explicit grammar instruction. This natural or communicative approach, though improving fluency and comprehension, nevertheless resulted in certain lapses in accuracy. In response, Long (1991) proposed a "focus on form" to address formal issues without leaving the communicative framework. This study examines the development of the ideology and practice of focus on form and analyzes representative studies. Results suggest that although the terminology of focus on form has remained intact in order to preserve its ideology, the actual practice has often broadened to include explicit and extensive grammar teaching, or "focus on formS." This thesis therefore calls for a more open system of second language research and pedagogy which articulates and employs effective methods regardless of their ideological constraints.

ISBN: 9780494899458Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018079
Language, Linguistics.

The Forest for the Trees: Critically Rethinking Current Perspectives on Focus on Form and SLA.
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