Elisabet Pladevall-Ballester
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elisabet Pladevall-Ballester is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 7. Young learners’ metalinguistic awareness in a task-supported EFL teaching intervention TBLT for Young Learners: Challenges, opportunities and goals, Khezrlou, Sima (ed.), pp. 130–154 | Chapter
This study explores the extent to which metalinguistic awareness of the past tense develops among YLs after a task-supported peer interaction intervention, with and without explicit form-focused and/or interactional pre-task instruction. Four groups of 6th-grade EFL learners aged 11–12… read more
2021 Pair dynamics and language-related episodes in child EFL task-based peer interaction Research on EFL learning by young children in Spain, García Mayo, María del Pilar (ed.), pp. 189–213 | Article
Previous research shows young learners are indeed able to interact in a foreign language (FL) and negotiate for meaning while also attending to form. One of the variables that has been least studied among young learners (YLs) in FL contexts is the kind of relationships established among the… read more
2020 Effects of focus on form on primary CLIL students’ foreign language performance in task-based oral interaction Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 8:1, pp. 53–79 | Article
In content and language integrated learning (CLIL) programmes, attention to language can be easily overlooked behind the assumption that language learning will take place incidentally. This study aimed at analysing the effects of a balanced integration of content and language on fifth graders’… read more