Grammar Teaching in the Communicative Classroom Based on Focus on Form Theory

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10.2991/icelaic-14.2014.73How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Form-focused instruction, grammar teaching, communicative classroom

Abstract

Grammar teaching is debated a lot related to its being taught or not in the field of second language teaching. ‘Focus on form’, suggesting that attention to form should be encouraged in communicative language classrooms, has aroused an increasing interest in the field of second language teaching methods. However, no systematic explicit grammar instruction is included in form-focused instruction. On the basis of the features of the EFL setting in China, two patterns of grammar teaching, which are divided into inductive and deductive approaches, are advocated as the adapting of ‘focus on form’ from ESL (English as a second language) setting to an EFL setting. Meanwhile, systematic explicit grammar instruction by the teacher is combined with task-based language teaching.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xueyun Zang
AU  - Baiwen Li
PY  - 2014/05
DA  - 2014/05
TI  - Grammar Teaching in the Communicative Classroom Based on Focus on Form Theory
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Intercultural Communication
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 287
EP  - 290
SN  - 2352-5398
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