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The Teaching and Acquisition of Focus Constructions: An Integrated Approach to Language Awareness across the Curriculum
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Callies, Marcus; Keller, Wolfram R. – Language Awareness, 2008
This paper reports on a study that examined a group of advanced German L2 learners' awareness and use of English focusing devices. Recent studies suggest that learners are aware of lexical resources, but lack awareness of grammatical structures. Focus constructions, i.e. pragmatically motivated word order variations, are pivotal to any text where…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Student Attitudes, Metalinguistics, Grammar