IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT GRAMMAR TEACHING

IMPLICIT AND EXPLICIT GRAMMAR TEACHING

Baytar, Birtan

Grammar teaching has been a controversial topic in second language acquisition (SLA) for years. No consensus has been reached about whether it should be taught at all or not. Some experts in the field of SLA states the importance of explicit instruction in foreign language learning process and favors it, while some others notes it is implicit instruction that leads to higher proficiency levels in terms of use and usage of the target language. In this report, my goal is to review the previously conducted studies related to the very area that is the effect of explicit and implicit grammar instruction on language proficiency and their role in the learning process if either of them helps the learners acquire the structures of the language. Keywords: grammar teaching, explicit instruction, implicit instruction

Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed

2014

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