UNIT 10 EXPOSURE AND FOCUS ON FORM

EXPOSURE AND FOCUS ON FORM

 There are three ways to learn a language such as exposure, interaction and focus on form. When teachers expose learners to the language they will increase the opportunities of unconscious language acquisition. What´s more, interacting with other people would force learners to experiment with the language and challenge themselves to use structures and chunks. However, to complete the learning process it is necessary to focus on form because learning a language is not paying attention just to meaning also to formal features like pronunciation, word order, grammatical structures, etc. Furthermore, in the language teaching classroom the ways of learning a language will vary according to learners´ age. For example children acquire the language just by exposure and interaction; they do not need to base their learning on form. In addition, this exposure needs to be done inside and outside the classroom using authentic material. On the other hand, adults base their knowledge on form, they consider compulsory to learn grammatical structures. Teachers should create a mixture of the three ways of learning in order to have good results during the process.

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