Principle Three ~ Form Focused Instruction
Mere exposure to large amounts of communicative input and output does not
result in highly accurate language use.
Therefore, form-focused instruction should take place.
Form-focused instruction has two primary purposes:
Purpose One
Therefore, form-focused instruction should take place.
Form-focused instruction has two primary purposes:
Purpose One
- To help students acquire the L2 lexicon more accurately by overcoming predictable problem areas, such as synforms, interlingual semantic differences, and some collocations.
Purpose Two
- To help students more efficiently acquire foreign language lexis including high-frequency vocabulary and high-frequency affixes.