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Publication details [#30402]

Basturkmen, Helen, Rod Ellis and Shawn Loewen. 2002. Metalanguage in Focus on Form in the Communicative Classroom. Language Awareness 11 (1) : 1–13.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | focus | form | language use | metalanguage

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0965-8416

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

The fact that participants take time out during communicative activities to give attention to linguistic items arising incidentally within these contexts, has been termed 'focus on form' (Long, 1991). This article examines one aspect of language use in focus on form, namely metalanguage.