Focus on Form in ICLHE Lectures in Italy

By F. Costa. 2012

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Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory, Safety Research

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Implementing English-medium instruction (EMI) in China: teachers’ practices and perceptions, and students’ learning motivation and needs* (2019, background): “Recent research has also brought attention to form-focused instruction or Focus on Form (FonF) in EMI settings (Costa 2012; Shegar, Zhang, and Low 2013; Basturkmen and Shackleford 2015).”
Exploring the role of language in English medium instruction (2020, background): “(Costa 2012, 39) As we can see in this extract the word ‘fast’ is being focused on by the teacher (we presume) because in this discipline it does not have the everyday meaning of ‘quick’ or ‘speedy’.”
The Routledge handbook of English language teaching (2018, background): “Conceptual categories that learners might focus on in an ELT classroom include grammatical concepts such as verbal tense, verbal aspect, motion and directionality; textual concepts such as coherence in texts; or pragmatic notions such as intentionality, normativity, solidarity or refusal.”
Engineering lecturers’ views on CLIL and EMI (2017, background): “Worthmentioning is that research analysing lecturers taking on the role of language teachers and focusing on form (Costa 2012; Hynninen 2012) reveals a close connectionwith content expertise andCosta (2012) contends that even though lecturers refuse to teach English, they use pre-emptive focus on…”
Fostering team teaching: Mapping out a research agenda for English-medium instruction at university level (2018, background): “Costa (2012) claims that university EMI teachers and students resort to the L1 when an explanation or a translation of a word or whole expressions is required.”
Is English-medium instruction effective in improving Chinese undergraduate students' English competence? (2014, background): “The growing research literature on effective EMI, however, suggests that it is precisely extensive and varied opportunities to engage in genuine interaction, negotiation of meaning, focus-on-form activities, and extended productive use of the target language that facilitate the development of commun”
A systematic review of English medium instruction in higher education (2017, background): “Costa (2012) also found evidence of codeswitching to L1 Italian in her corpus of 16 hours of lectures.”