"This book ... is primarily about the multiple ways in which secondlanguageacquisition can illuminate language pedagogy"--Pref.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-271) and index.
Contents
Background: Secondlanguageacquisition research and language pedagogy -- Making research accessible: Grammar teaching and grammar learning -- Options in grammar teaching-- The application of theory: A theory of instructed secondlanguageacquisition-- The structural syllabus and secondlanguageacquisition-- Acquisition-compatible grammar tasks -- Secondlanguageacquisition research in the classroom: Learning to communicate in the classroom -- The teacher as researcher: Focused communication tasks -- Micro-evaluation: does a task work? -- Conclusion: Mediation problems.