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Focus on form in classroom second language acquisition / edited by Catherine Doughty and Jessica Williams. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998. - xiv, 301 p. ; 24 cm. - The Cambridge applied linguistics series. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-285) and indexes.

Issues and terminology / Catherine Doughty and Jessica Williams -- Focus on form : theory, research, and practice / Michael H. Long and Peter Robinson -- Beyond focus on form : cognitive perspectives on learning and practicing second language grammar / Robert M. DeKeyser -- Focus on form through conscious reflection / Merrill Swain -- Getting the learners' attention : a typographical input enhancement study / Joanna White -- Communicative focus on form / Catherine Doughty and Elizabeth Varela -- What kind of focus and on which forms? / Jessica Williams and Jacqueline Evans -- The role of focus-on-form tasks in promoting child L2 acquisition / Birgit Harley -- The importance of timing in focus on form / Patsy M. Lightbown -- Pedagogical choices in focus on form / Catherine Doughty and Jessica Williams.

ISBN: 9780521625517 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Language and languages--Study and teaching.
Second language acquisition--Study and teaching.

LC Class. No.: P51 / .F549 1998

Dewey Class. No.: 407.1 / F652