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Teaching

Grammar

Focus on form in the language classroom

Content

Content

- Theories on grammar teaching

- My teaching project

- Bibliography

Theories

Cook (2008)

Cook

Prescriptive, traditional, structural, subconscious.

6 stages of learning language

Grammar is... "the knowledge of language that the speaker possesses in the mind, known as linguistic or grammatical competence." (22)

"Grammatical explanation is a way of teaching facts about the language." (40)

Subconscious grammar: Grammar that already exists in the learner's mind.

Long

Focus on Form v. Focus on Forms

FonF: Learner- and meaningcentred

Grammar should be taught when the communication is obstructed by lack of such knowledge.

Task-based learning: The definition of tasks

Swain

Critical to Long's TBL.

Metatalk in making meaning

Laufer

Laufer

FonF in vocabulary learning

Ellis

Ellis

No "one way" of teaching TBL

- Primary focus on meaning

- Information gap/need

- Learners should rely on own resources

- Language serves as a means, not an end

Takes the stages into consideration

TBL is intrinsically motivating

My teaching project

My teaching project

The start of a class

Finding "My favorite no"

They have to help me figure it out.

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Cook, V. (2008). Second Language Learning and Language Teaching (4th ed.) Hodder Education.

Ellis, R. (2009). Task-based language teaching: sorting out the misunderstandings. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 19(3): 221–246.

Laufer, B. (2010). Form focused instruction in second language vocabulary learning. In R. Chacón-Beltrán, D. Abello-Contesse, M.M. Torreblanca-López & M.D. López-Jiménez (Eds.), Further Insights into Non-Native Vocabulary Teaching and Learning (pp. 15–27). Bristol, Buffalo, Toronto: Multilingual Matters. 

Long, M. (2016). In defense of tasks and TBLT: Nonissues and Real Issues. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 36: 5–33.

Midwinter, A. (2015, March 14). My Favorite No. [Video clip] Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srJWx7P6uLE

Swain, M. (1998). Focus on form through conscious reflection. In C. Doughty; J. Williams. (Eds.) Focus on Form in Classroom Second Language Acquisition (pp.64–81). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

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