Practice for Second Language Learning: Don't Throw out the Baby with the Bathwater

• Autores: Robert DeKeyser
• Localización: IJES: international journal of English studies, ISSN 1578-7044, ISSN-e 1989-6131, Vol. 10, Nº. 1, 2010 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Cognitive processes, Instructed Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching Materials / coord. por Raquel Criado, Aquilino Sánchez Pérez), págs. 155-165
• Idioma: inglés
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  • After presenting some of the main arguments against certain narrow concepts of second language practice, this article argues that a broader concept of practice, still focused on form or even forms, but with due attention to form-meaning links and with appropriate sequencing of activities to ensure declarative knowledge first, followed by its proceduralization and (at least partial) automatization, is as relevant as ever. A brief overview is given of the range of activities that fall within this concept, and recommendations are made for adaptation to students� individual and group differences.