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Ellis, Rod – Language Learning, 2015
Idealization plays a fundamental role in scientific inquiry. This article examines the case for maintaining the claim that the second language acquisition (SLA) of grammatical structures such as negation manifests identifiable stages of acquisition. It proposes that, while research has demonstrated the need for de-idealization, there is no need to…
Descriptors: Language Research, Second Language Learning, Teacher Education, Grammar
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Ellis, Rod – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
The author has worked as a language teacher, teacher educator, and second language acquisition (SLA) researcher for over forty years. During this time grammar has figured largely in his thinking, in part because it has traditionally been so central to language pedagogy and in part because he became fascinated with how the human mind grapples with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Autobiographies
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Batstone, Rob; Ellis, Rod – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2009
A key aspect of the acquisition of grammar for second language learners involves learning how to make appropriate connections between grammatical forms and the meanings which they typically signal. We argue that learning form/function mappings involves three interrelated principles. The first is the Given-to-New Principle, where existing world…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Processes
Ellis, Rod – 1983
Formulaic speech, expressions learned as unanalyzed wholes and used on particular occasions by native speakers, is contrasted to "grammatical" sentences using novel combinations of words in the second language classroom. The speech produced by three limited English-speaking children in an English program suggests that formulaic speech…
Descriptors: Children, Classroom Communication, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)