Discussion on Form Focused Instruction

The pedagogy of language teaching has moved from one extreme-Grammar Translation Method to the other-Communicative Language Teaching.Today Form Focused Instruction(FFI) has emerged,intending to bring language forms instruction back to the communicative language classroom.Despite of the approval of this new approach,there is a hot dispute on its two types of application:Focus on Form or Focus on FormS.This article briefly analyzes FFI in recent research studies with focus on the choice between the two types of application.The tentative conclusion is FFI does show some explicit and reliable effects on accuracy and error elimination in language teaching;however,the investigation into its application is not simply either Focus on Form or Focus on FormS,but focuses on the optimal combination of the two in teaching.

The pedagogy, of language teaching has moved from one extreme - Grammar Translation Method to the other - Communicative Language Teaching. Today Form Focused Instruction （FF1） has emerged, intending to bring language forms instruction back to the communicative language classroom. Despite of the approval of this new appruach, there is a hot dispute on its two types of application： Focus on Form or Focus on FormS. This article briefly analyzes FF1 in recent research studies with focus on the choice between the two types of application. The tentative conclusion is FFI does show some explicit and reliable effects on accuracy and error elimination in language teaching; however, the investigation into its application is not simply either Focus on Form or Focus on FormS, but focuses on the optimal combination of the two in teaching.