scholarly journals Combining Explicit- Implicit with Focus on Form - Focus on FormS Feedback in EFL Learners' Written Task Accuracy

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Moh. Rofid Fikroni

Bearing in mind that the learners’ speaking skill had become the main goal in learning language, grammatical competence is believed to have a big role within foreign language learners’ language production, especially in spoken form. Moreover, the learners’ grammatical competence is also closely related to the Monitor Hypothesis proposed by Krashen (1982) in which it says that the acquired system will function as monitor or editor to the language production. The students’ monitor performance will vary based on how they make use of their acquired system. They may use it optimally (monitor optimal user), overly (monitor over-user), or they may not use it at all (monitor under-user). Therefore, learners’ grammatical competence has its own role, which is very crucial, within learners’ language production, which is not only to produce the language, but also to monitor the language production itself. Because of this reason, focus on form instruction will give a great impact for students’ grammatical competence within their communicative competence. This paper aims to present ideas about the how crucial the role grammatical competence within learners’ L2 communication.


Author(s):  
Jumaniyozova Feruza Tulibayevna ◽  

In introducing conditionals to the students, teachers come across difficulties, as it is hard to explain this grammar rule without mentioning form, meaning, and time-tense relationship separately. Since the conditionals themselves are a complicated topic for both teachers and learners, mixed conditionals raise more confusion among L2 learners in Uzbekistan. Therefore, mixed conditionals are one of the most troublesome issues that EFL learners struggle to understand and use. This article focuses on (1) learners’ difficulties in understanding this grammar rule and (2) easier ways of explaining mixed conditionals to the students with the help of focus-on-form and focus-on-meaning activities.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 158
Author(s):  
Aysegul Daloglu

Learner beliefs about how they learn a language best play a vital role in the instructional process and the role of grammar instruction has been a much-debated topic in the research and practice of EFL instruction. This study explores learner beliefs about how they best learn grammar focusing on four construct pairs: meaning-focused versus form-focused instruction, focus on form versus focus on forms, explicit versus implicit instruction, and inductive versus deductive grammar instruction. Data were collected through a survey from 927 preparatory year and undergraduate students at an English-medium university in an English as a foreign language (EFL) setting. Results showed that regardless of year of study, students showed a preference for having grammar included as part of their lessons and course books, and although focus on form was reported to be the least preferred method of instruction, when given a choice between implicit versus explicit grammar instruction, all groups preferred explicit instruction.


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