Form-Focused Instruction and the Advanced Language Learner
On the Importance of the Semantics of Grammar
©2011
Postdoctoral Thesis
512 Pages
Series:
Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature, Volume 33
Summary
Form-Focused Instruction and the Advanced Language Learner looks at the role of FFI at higher levels of foreign language learning. It argues that – contrary to a common belief – there are aspects of grammar to be taught to the proficient FL user. While such a learner may be familiar with formal properties of different structures, (s)he still needs to focus on the semantics of target language grammar. Considering this, the book investigates the efficiency of a FFI treatment called Organic Approach Deductivised or 3-D language pedagogy, devised to teach the semantics of the English tense-and-aspect system to the advanced EFL learner. In doing so, the book takes the reader through different aspects of focus on form, looking at the semantics of the English time talk from the cognitive perspective.
Details
- Pages
- 512
- Publication Year
- 2011
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783653018769
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631607497
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-3-653-01876-9
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2012 (August)
- Keywords
- English tense and aspect Focus on form foreign language explicit and implicit learning
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011. 510 pp., num. tables and graphs