Teaching and Learning English Grammar

Foreword Joanne Dresner Preface MaryAnn Christison, Donna Christian, Patricia A. Duff, and Nina Spada Acknowledgments Part I. Overview of English grammar instruction * An overview of teaching grammar in ELT Marianne Celce-Murcia Part II. Focus on form in second language acquisition * Focus on form: Addressing grammatical accuracy in an occupation-specific language program Antonella Valeo * Teaching English grammar in context: The timing of form-focused intervention Junko Hondo * Form-focused instruction and learner investment: Case study of a high school student in Japan Yasuyo Tomita * The influence of pretask instructions and pretask planning on focus on form during Korean EFL task-based interaction Sujung Park Part III. The use of technology in teaching grammar * The role of corpus research in the design of advanced level grammar instruction Michael J. McCarthy * Corpus-based lexicogrammatical approach to grammar instruction: Its use and effects in EFL and ESL contexts Dilin Liu and Ping Jiang * Creating corpus-based vocabulary lists for two verb tenses: A lexicogrammar approach Keith S. Folse Part IV. Instructional design and grammar * Putting (functional) grammar to work in content-based English for academic purposes instruction Patricia A. Duff, Alfredo A. Ferreira, and Sandra Zappa-Hollman * Integrating grammar in adult TESOL classrooms Anne Burns and Simon Borg * Teacher and learner preferences for integrated and isolated form-focused instruction Nina Spada and Marilia dos Santos Lima * Form-focused approaches to learning, teaching, and researching grammar Rod Ellis Epilogue Kathleen M. Bailey About the Contributors Index