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Publication details [#52679]

Ortega, Lourdes and Naoko Mochizuki. 2008. Balancing communication and grammar in beginning-level foreign language classrooms: A study of guided planning and relativization. Language Teaching Research 12 (1) : 11–37.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | foreign language acquisition | grammar1 | high school | relativization

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

This study demonstrates that guided planning (in casu of an oral story retelling classroom task among 1st year high school students of English in Japan) can create favorable conditions for a pedagogical balance between communication and grammar.