目录 Section A INTRODUCTION Chapter 1 A Professional Life: Teacher, Teacher Educator and Researcher Section B RESEARCHING INSTRUCTED GRAMMAR LEARNING Introduction Chapter 2 Can Syntax Be Taught? A Study of the Effects of Formal Instruction on the Acquisition of WH Questions by Children Chapter 3 Are Classroom and Naturalistic Acquisition the Same? A Study of the Classroom Acquisition of German Word Order Rules Chapter 4 Focused Communication Tasks and Second Language Acquisition Chapter 5 Does Form-Focused Instruction Affect the Acquisition of Implicit Knowledge? A Review of the Research Chapter 6 Focusing on Form in the Communicative Classroom Chapter 7 The Differential Effects of Corrective Feedback on Two Grammatical Structures Chapter 8 Researching the Effects of Form-Focused Instruction on L2 Acquisition ……
精彩内容 provided me, for the first time, with the opportunity to supervise doctoral dissertations and also to hone my ideas about grammar teaching. They also gave me the opportunity to live in one of the most exciting and remarkable cities of the world ― Tokyo. I remain enormously grateful to Ken Schaefer, the Director of TUJs graduate TESOL programme, for the opportunity to work there and for the support he provided for both my teaching and my writing. A feature of TUJ's doctoral programme ― one common to North American programmes at this level ― was the provision of a series of courses which all the students had to complete before embarking on their dissertations. The purpose of these courses was to ensure that students were familiar with current research in applied linguistics and also to help them develop the technical skills needed to conduct research in a variety of different paradigms. As a result, when students reached the dissertation stage, they were thoroughly prepared to carry out empirical research. They possessed a clear idea of what they wanted to investigate, they were familiar with the relevant research and they had the tools they needed to design a study, collect data, analyse them, and write up their results in accordance with the conventions of their chosen research paradigm. In these respects, they differed markedly from doctoral students in the British tradition, including myself. I learned as much from them about how to research as they learned from me. A number of the students I supervised produced exemplary dissertations. It is not possible to mention all of them but I would like to briefly summarise the research of three with whom I have continued to keep in contact up to today. The first student to finish her dissertation at TUJ was Tomoko Kaneko. She elected to examine the use of English and Japanese (the students' LI) in junior college English lessons. She was also interested in what the students 'uptook' from these lessons (i.e. were able to report having learned) and the types of interactions that promoted their uptake. One of her main findings was that the teachers in the classes she investigated used far more Japanese than English! ……
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