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The Efficacy of Focus on Form on Promoting Second Language Learning

Publish Year: 1386
Type: Journal paper
Language: English
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JR_TELJ-2-1_001

Index date: 26 April 2021

The Efficacy of Focus on Form on Promoting Second Language Learning abstract

The disparity between the linguistic knowledge and the communicative abilities which is often observed in the performance of second language (L2) learners has recently shifted the focus of the researchers toward the FonF paradigm. Having the ability to draw the learners' attention to the target linguistic features in the input, FonF, as an appealing approach is thought to balance between the linguistic knowledge and communicative abilities. The present paper attempts to investigate the conditions under which the acquisition of passive syntactic structures and morphological markers of tense can be maximized, and to examine differences in noticing and learning of syntactic structures vs. morphological markers of tense. On this account, the adult college students, who had enrolled for general English, were selected for the study. They were assigned to three classes, and each class received one of the three different types of instructions: non- enhanced (NoFonF), enhanced (implicit FonF), and enhanced plus practice (explicit FonF). Results of the study revealed that explicit FonF group performed significantly better than the implicit FonF group. The study argues for the adoption of a particular type of explicit instruction – one which promotes noticing andunderstanding of the target linguistic features.

The Efficacy of Focus on Form on Promoting Second Language Learning Keywords:

Focus on Form , second language acquisition , passive syntactic structures , and morphology markers of tense and linguistic features

The Efficacy of Focus on Form on Promoting Second Language Learning authors

Masoud Rahimi Domakani

Shahrekord University