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Ellis, Rod – ELT Journal, 2022
An important issue in the teaching of writing is whether students should prepare a plan before they start writing. Teacher guides generally recommend pre-task planning (PTP) but with provisos. Research that has investigated PTP, however, does not lend unconditional support to PTP. This article takes a look at the research and draws from it a…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Ellis, Rod – Language Teaching, 2021
As Larsen-Freeman (2018) wrote in her own historical account of second language acquisition (SLA) 'it is important to understand ideas at the time they originated' (p. 56). This is certainly true of the field of second language acquisition (SLA). Rod Ellis adds that it is also important to understand how the ideas that motivated a field of enquiry…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Educational History, Educational Research
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Erlam, Rosemary; Ellis, Rod – Language Teaching, 2019
Erlam & Ellis (2018) published, in "Canadian Modern Language Review", an experimental study that investigated the effect of input-based tasks on the acquisition of vocabulary and markers of plurality by adolescent near-beginner learners of L2 (second language) French. The present paper reports an approximate replication of the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Linguistic Input, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development
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Zhao, Yongbin; Ellis, Rod – Language Teaching Research, 2022
This article reports a classroom-based study of the effects of two types of corrective feedback (CF) on the acquisition of 3rd person "-s." One hundred and nine Chinese university students completed three communicative tasks: One group received implicit CF consisting of a single corrective move (implicit recasts), a second group received…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Ellis, Rod – Language Teaching Research, 2019
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) and task-supported language teaching (TSLT) are often seen as incompatible as they draw on different theories of language learning and language teaching. The position adopted in this article, however, is that both approaches are needed especially in instructional contexts where 'pure' task-based teaching may be…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Fluency
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Ellis, Rod – Language Teaching, 2017
The advocacy of task-based language teaching (TBLT) has met with resistance. The critiques of TBLT and the misconceptions that underlie them have already been addressed in Ellis (2009) and Long (2016). The purpose of this article is to move forward by examining a number of real problems that TBLT faces--such as how a "task" should be…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Erlam, Rosemary; Ellis, Rod – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2018
This study investigated the effect of input-based tasks on the acquisition of vocabulary and grammar by beginner-level learners of L2 French and reported the introduction of task-based teaching as an innovation in a state secondary school. The experimental group (n = 19) completed a series of focused input-based language tasks, taught by their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, Linguistic Input, Grammar
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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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Shintani, Natsuko; Ellis, Rod – Language Teaching Research, 2014
The purpose of this article is to examine both the process and product of vocabulary learning in a task-based instructional context. The article reports a study that investigated the acquisition of two dimensional adjectives ("big" and "small") by six-year-old Japanese children who were complete beginners. It tracked the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages)
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Li, Shaofeng; Zhu, Yan; Ellis, Rod – Modern Language Journal, 2016
The article reports on a study investigating the comparative effects of immediate and delayed corrective feedback in learning the English past passive construction, a linguistic structure of which the learners had little prior knowledge. A total of 120 learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) from 4 intact classes at a Chinese middle school…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Shintani, Natsuko; Ellis, Rod; Suzuki, Wataru – Language Learning, 2014
The study compared the effects of two types of form-focused written feedback--direct corrective feedback (DCF) and metalinguistic explanation (ME) given to the whole class--on Japanese university students' accuracy of use of two grammatical structures: indefinite article and the hypothetical conditional. Both types of feedback were given with…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Accuracy, Error Correction, Metalinguistics
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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
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Shintani, Natsuko; Ellis, Rod – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
Most studies that have investigated the effects of instruction on the SLA of specific grammatical features have focused on intentional learning. This study investigated incidental acquisition by comparing the relative effects of two types of instruction--comprehension-based instruction (CBI) and production-based instruction (PBI)--on young…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Nouns
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Ellis, Rod – Language Teaching, 2010
Various positions regarding the Second Language Acquisition (SLA)-Language Pedagogy (LP) nexus have been advanced. Taking these as a starting point, this article will examine the nature of the SLA/LP relationship both more generally and more concretely. First, it will place the debates evident in the different positions regarding the relationship…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Teacher Collaboration, Researchers, Teacher Educators
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