The Role of Context in Focus on Grammar

In this chapter, we discuss the role of context in communicative focus on grammar. An important factor to consider in using FonF methods to teach grammar communicatively is the context of the instructional situation. For example, is it a second language or a foreign language context? In other words,...

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Vydané v:Teaching Grammar in Second Language Classrooms s. 131 - 144
Hlavní autori: Nassaji, Hossein, Fotos, Sandra S.
Médium: Kapitola
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Routledge 2011
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EFL Situation
Target Forms
Regular L2
EFL Context
Target Language Learning
ESL Learner
NS Teacher
L2 Learner
Target Language Instruction
Form Focused Instruction
Foreign Language Context
Advanced Level Learners
Immersion Programs
Target Language
Teaching Grammar
ESL Situation
EFL Learner
English Grammar
Foreign Language Situation
ESL Context
World Englishes
NNS Teacher
Target Structures
EFL Classroom
ISBN:9780415802055, 0415802040, 0415802059, 9780415802048
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Shrnutí:In this chapter, we discuss the role of context in communicative focus on grammar. An important factor to consider in using FonF methods to teach grammar communicatively is the context of the instructional situation. For example, is it a second language or a foreign language context? In other words, is the target language a second language, spoken in the country where the learner resides, or is it a foreign language, studied in the learner’s home country? There are a number of other contextual factors that have important implications for teaching grammar. Is the teacher a native speaker (NS) of the target language or a non-native speaker (NNS)? What about the age of the learner? Is the learner a child, able to learn language quickly and easily perhaps due to a language acquisition device (Chomsky, 1965), or is the learner post-puberty, or an adult, needing to learn through a more cognitive approach? How does the teaching of EFL fit in to the growing body of literature on World Englishes (Burns & Coffin, 2003; Jenkins, 2003)? Regarding the instructional situation, is the L2 learner studying in an immersion program with carefully selected content instruction in the L2 and considerable support for both L1 and L2 learning? Or is the learner mostly in the regular L2 program for NSs, with need for L2 instruction met through “pull-out” extra language classes? Or is the learner studying in a simplified contentbased system taught in easy and simplified L2 with the goal of rapidly mainstreaming the learner into regular NS classes? Or is the L2 learner simply submerged in regular L2 classes with no L2 support at all?
ISBN:9780415802055
0415802040
0415802059
9780415802048
DOI:10.4324/9780203850961-15