Transcription of Second Language Acquisition and Language Teaching
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Second Language Acquisition and Language Teaching ELSA TRAGANT & CARMEN MU OZ' University of Barcelona ABSI'RACT After discussing the ties between Language Teaching and Second Language Acquisition research, the present paper reviews the role that Second Language Acquisition research has played on two recent pedagogical proposals. First, communicative Language Teaching , advocated in the early eighties, in which focus on the code was excluded, and then the more recent research-based proposals of integrating some degree of focus on form in meaning-based curricula. Following Ellis (1998), four macro-options of focus-on-form interventions and their theoretical motivations are presented, followed by recent research evidence: input processing, input enhancement, form- focused output and negative feedback.
role of grammar in foreign language instruction (Mitchell, 2000) and felt disillusioned with the results of audio-lingual teaching (Lightbown, 2000). But the drastic changes that took place in foreignlsecond language teaching starting in the sixties had their immediate antecedents outside SLA research and theory.
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