a way for them to use language in a meaningful context. Therefore, the teacher’s language allowed the students to participate in meaning-focused interaction, and consequently there is more variability in the structure of that communication. In second language classrooms, meaning-focused instruction will create more opportunities for students to use language for learning and to perform a range
Construct of CC (Michael Canale & Merril Swain)
Grammatical Competence
: aspect of CC that encompasses “knowledge of lexical items and rules of morphology, syntax, sentence-grammar semantics, and phonology.”
Discourse Competence
: the ability we have to connect sentences in stretches of discourse and to form a meaningful whole out of a series of utterances.
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1. Introduction
1.1. Purpose of the Research
English has become the global language used nowadays in commerce, cultural exchanges as well human and diplomatic relations. Hence, English education has become a very important issue for nations all over the world. South Korea as a monolingual country has found in English language a convenient access to the world and this is one of the reasons why t
1. Systematic Interlanguage Variation
√ linguistic environment
√ social condition
√ interlocutor
√ physical location
(Tarone 1979, 1988)
2. Debate between SLA researcher & theoretician
Non-variationist Variationist
View of language Language as an idealized form
(exclude variations) IL variation
(include variations)
Focus Internal mental pr
Ⅲ. Classroom analysis (1)
- Excerpt 1
1. T: I’m going to ask you some questions first. I’m going to ask you some other questions too. Okay, ready? All right, Okay, What time is Joe meeting dave at the park? What time is Joe meeting date at the park? What time is Joe meeting date at the park?
2. Danny : Joe meeting
3. T: Joe meeting?
4. Danny : Joe was
5. T: Was?
6. Danny :