An action research paper on guided discovery in grammar practice

• Autores: Juan Carlos Villatoro López
• Localización: e-CO: Revista digital de educación y formación del profesorado, ISSN 1697-9745, Nº. 12, 2015, pág. 18
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper aims at presenting the findings of an action research project carried out to collect data relating to the role of formalgrammar teaching in the EFL classroom. In this study on learning the semantics of five modals, the chief objectives were to ascertain whether the learners preferred, when given the choice, a explicitly given instruction or a deductive approach, and which of the two practices helped L2 acquisition better with an economy of materials, e.g. in accelerating it, in raising awareness, and in increasing accuracy, thus providing potentially useful information for teachers and materials writers.