Does incidental focus on form occur in the EFL communicative language classroom?

• Autores: Elina Vilar Beltrán
• Localización: Proceedings of the 30th International AEDEAN Conference: [electronic resource] / María Losada Friend (ed. lit.), Pilar Ron Vaz (ed. lit.), Sonia Hernández Santano (ed. lit.), Jorge Casanova García (ed. lit.), 2007, ISBN 978-84-96826-31-1
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The present study aims to contribute to the growing body of descriptive research investigating Focus on Form (FonF), defined as the incidental attention that teachers and students pay to linguistic elements in lessons whose principal focus is on meaning or communication (Long, 1991). To this end, we have analysed transcripts from a communicative EFL classroom in order to find out how attention to form is achieved. Our findings match the former definition in that both students and teacher incidentally focus on form while they are engaged in a conversation, and they do so in a reactive and pre-emptive way. Results of our study show that communicative language classrooms may be useful for both, enhancing oral skills and also language issues.