The importance of focus on form in communicative language teaching

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The importance of focus on form in communicative language teaching

Long (1991) distinguished two approaches to language teaching, which he called ‘focus-on-forms’ and ‘focus-on-form’. In this article I discuss ‘focus-on-form’ from both a theoretical perspective by outlining the psycholinguistic rationale for this type of instruction and from a practical perspecti...

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Main Author:	Ellis, Rod
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	2015
Online Access:	http://ejal.eu/index.php/ejal/article/view/50 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/58878

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