THE IMPACT OF FOCUS ON FORM IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

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  • Nguyen Pham Thanh Uyen*

Keywords:

focus on form
grammar
attention
nput and interaction
second language teaching

Abstract

The benefits of focus on form instruction as “the miracle method that many teachers had always been searching for” (Poole, 2005, p.47) has been one of the main interests in the second language teaching community to date. This paper attempts to generalize findings from different empirical studies which contribute to the confirmation of the effectiveness of focus on form instruction, which can be implemented by using two typical techniques: input enhancement and corrective feedback in interaction to draw learners’ attention to formal language in the meaning-based context of learning. Five research articles descriptions and the summary of the contribution to the asserting the role of attention to form are presented and discussed, and on this base, some implications for teaching in the current context are recommended.

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Jun 30, 2016
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Nguyen Pham Thanh Uyen*. “THE IMPACT OF FOCUS ON FORM IN LANGUAGE TEACHING”. The University of Danang - Journal of Science and Technology, vol. 6, no. 103, June 2016, pp. 59-62, https://jst-ud.vn/jst-ud/article/view/1307.

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