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Hu, Guangwei – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2011
This paper reports on a study designed to investigate the acquisition of metalinguistic knowledge by L2 learners exposed to large doses of explicit grammar instruction, their facility with metalanguage, and the relationship between metalinguistic and metalingual knowledge. Seventy-six young adult Chinese learners of English as a foreign language…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Grammar, Young Adults, Second Language Learning
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Carless, David – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2007
Task-based teaching has a high profile within contemporary ELT, yet there are few analyses of the appropriateness of task-based approaches for school contexts. This paper aims to analyse the suitability of task-based teaching for Hong Kong secondary schools; and to derive some suggestions for the development of a version of task-based approaches…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Grammar, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers