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Focus-on-Form and Corrective Feedback in Communicative Language Teaching: Effects on Second Language Learning.

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Lightbown, Patsy M.; Spada, Nina – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1990

Investigation of the developing oral English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) skills of native French speaking elementary students in a five-month intensive ESL course found that teachers' use of form-focused instruction and corrective feedback influenced students' correct use of "-ing" structures and adjective-noun order. (47 references) (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Feedback

Intensive ESL Programmes in Quebec Primary Schools.

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Spada, Nina; Lightbown, Patsy M. – TESL Canada Journal, 1989

Reports on a study designed to investigate the second language development of francophone children in an experimental intensive English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) program in Quebec. Results indicated that subjects outperformed students in regular ESL programs on listening and reading comprehension tests and in oral fluency and had more positive…

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, French