Focus on form–a myth in the making?

By R. Sheen. 2003

152 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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How researchers see this paper

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In Language and Linguistics

1. Parveneh Tavakoli
2. Pauline Foster
3. R. Ellis
4. Kazuya Saito
5. R. Lyster
6. Masatoshi Sato
7. P. Skehan
8. Younghee Sheen

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Parveneh Tavakoli
2. Pauline Foster
3. R. Ellis
4. Kazuya Saito
5. Andrea Révész
6. R. Lyster
7. Masatoshi Sato
8. C. V. Beuningen

Citations in the corpus

• Task Design and Second Language Performance: The Effect of Narrative Type on Learner Output (2008, background): “Swan (2005) pointed out that a classroom focus on explaining grammatical structures (which is not a task as we define it later) is not necessarily the waste of time that it is occasionally dismissed as (cf. also, Sheen, 2003).”
• Task-based language teaching: sorting out the misunderstandings (2009, background): “Sheen (2003) also claims that in TBLT any post-task grammar work is supposed to take the form of grammar-problem solving tasks (i.e. consciousness-raising (CR) tasks).”