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Focus on Form in College English Teaching
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Gao, Sixia – English Language Teaching, 2009
Many college English teachers lay emphasis on language meaning instead of language forms in order to satisfy the need of new college English curricular, change the present situation of "dumb-and-deaf English" and improve the students' communicative competence. This approach upgrades the fluency but slows down accuracy, which results in…
Descriptors: College English, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Form Classes (Languages)