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Peer reviewedEllis, Rod – Applied Linguistics, 1988
Longitudinal data regarding three children's learning of English as a second language in a classroom setting support the hypothesis that the distribution of grammatical variants in learner speech is sensitive to linguistic context. Results suggest that the learners acquired the target language variants in "pronoun contexts" before "noun contexts."…
Descriptors: Context Clues, English (Second Language), Grammar, Interlanguage
Peer reviewedEllis, Rod – Language Learning, 2001
Provides an historical sketch of form-focused instruction research, defines what is meant by form-focused instruction, and discusses the main research methods that have been used to investigate form-focused instruction in terms of a broad distinction between confirmatory and interpretive research. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Grammar, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
