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Publication details [#48910]
Callies, Marcus and Wolfram R. Keller. 2008. The Teaching and Acquisition of Focus Constructions: An Integrated Approach to Language Awareness Across the Curriculum. Language Awareness 17 (3) : 249–266.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study demonstrates that even advanced (German university) students of (English as) a second/foreign language only possess a very general awareness of (English) focusing devices and argues for a discourse grammar perspective on the teaching of focus constructions.