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Publication details [#44879]

Macaro, Ernesto and Liz Masterman. 2006. Does intensive explicit grammar instruction make all the difference? Language Teaching Research 10 (3) : 297–327.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

grammar1 | knowledge | translation | university | writing

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

This study demonstrates that explicit French second language grammar instruction of pre-first-year French language students at a UK university leads to some improvements in their second language grammatical knowledge but offers no gains in accuracy in either translation or free composition.