Publications

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

focus | foreign language acquisition | language awareness | pragmatics | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

English | German

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

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.