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Publication details [#58946]

Lyster, Roy and Hainu Xu. 2014. Differential effects of explicit form-focused instruction on morphosyntactic development. Language Awareness 23 (1/2) : 107–122.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language acquisition | foreign language teaching | form | instructing1 | orality

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

It is argued that express form-focused instruction fosters the use of morphosyntactic target forms in Chinese English as a foreign language learners' oral production and that the facilitative impact depends upon the intricacy and regularity of the morphosyntactic forms.