The results show that form-focused instruction and grammar tasks dominate over meaning-focused instruction and grammar tasks in all textbooks. The proportions ...

Meaning-focused instruction is based on the idea that learners learn the second language if they follow the natural principles of first language learning (Long ...

Abstract?Finding the effects of Focused and Unfocused written corrective feedback is one of the commonest issues influencing the feedback methods currently ...

In this paper, we discuss the realization of focus in Limbum (Grassfields Bantu,. Cameroon), a language which shows a so-far unattested pattern of focus ...

Positive sentences with focus can have a second component of meaning which is either negative or positive. Consider the example in (1), which states that John ...

The subject of this article is the semantics of focus, i.e. the development of a framework in which we can formulate the influence of focus ...

Focus on form (FonF) refers to an approach which attempts to provide grammar focus. It is always done in the form of corrective feedback and only.

The present paper1 addresses the phonological realization of focus in French and claims that this language uses a single strategy to signal focus, ...

A study by Chen (1998) used a sentence-picture verification task and a sentence-correction task to assess the use of different syntactic structures and prosodic ...

Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses, the study found that the focused group improved significantly in the accuracy of case forms while the unfocused ...