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Ellis, Rod – Language Teaching, 2021
As Larsen-Freeman (2018) wrote in her own historical account of second language acquisition (SLA) 'it is important to understand ideas at the time they originated' (p. 56). This is certainly true of the field of second language acquisition (SLA). Rod Ellis adds that it is also important to understand how the ideas that motivated a field of enquiry…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational History, Educational Research
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Erlam, Rosemary; Ellis, Rod – Language Teaching, 2019
Erlam & Ellis (2018) published, in "Canadian Modern Language Review", an experimental study that investigated the effect of input-based tasks on the acquisition of vocabulary and markers of plurality by adolescent near-beginner learners of L2 (second language) French. The present paper reports an approximate replication of the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Linguistic Input, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development
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Ellis, Rod – Language Teaching, 2017
The advocacy of task-based language teaching (TBLT) has met with resistance. The critiques of TBLT and the misconceptions that underlie them have already been addressed in Ellis (2009) and Long (2016). The purpose of this article is to move forward by examining a number of real problems that TBLT faces--such as how a "task" should be…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Ellis, Rod – Language Teaching, 2010
Various positions regarding the Second Language Acquisition (SLA)-Language Pedagogy (LP) nexus have been advanced. Taking these as a starting point, this article will examine the nature of the SLA/LP relationship both more generally and more concretely. First, it will place the debates evident in the different positions regarding the relationship…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Teacher Collaboration, Researchers, Teacher Educators