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Thirty-Five Years of ISLA on Form-Focused Instruction: A Methodological Synthesis
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Sok, Sarah; Kang, Eun Young; Han, ZhaoHong – Language Teaching Research, 2019
This article offers a methodological synthesis spanning 35 years of instructed second language acquisition research on the efficacy of form-focused instruction. Eighty-eight (quasi-) experimental studies were sampled from six academic journals: "Applied Linguistics," "Language Learning," "Language Teaching Research,"…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Grammar
Thirty-Five Years of ISLA on Form-Focused Instruction: A Meta-Analysis
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Kang, Eun Young; Sok, Sarah; Han, ZhaoHong – Language Teaching Research, 2019
This meta-analysis offers a snapshot of thirty-five years (1980-2015) of research on instructed second language acquisition (ISLA). Fifty-four empirical studies involving a total of 5,051 second language learners -- sampled from six applied linguistics journals, "Applied Linguistics, Language Learning, Language Teaching Research,"…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Teaching Methods, Grammar, Second Language Learning
The Type and Linguistic Foci of Oral Corrective Feedback in the L2 Classroom: A Meta-Analysis
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Brown, Dan – Language Teaching Research, 2016
Research on corrective feedback (CF), a central focus of second language acquisition (SLA), has increasingly examined how teachers employ CF in second language classrooms. Lyster and Ranta's (1997) seminal study identified six types of CF that teachers use in response to students' errors (recast, explicit correction, elicitation, clarification…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Metalinguistics, Error Correction, Feedback (Response)