The document discusses accuracy and fluency in language learning. It notes that while communicative methodologies emphasize both accuracy and fluency, programs that focus extensively on authentic communication often result in students developing fluency at the expense of accuracy, leading to weak grammar skills. It proposes incorporating more explicit grammar instruction and form-focused activities within communicative tasks to help students properly acquire accuracy while developing fluency.
The document discusses accuracy and fluency in language learning. It notes that while communicative methodologies emphasize both accuracy and fluency, programs that focus extensively on authentic communication often result in students developing fluency at the expense of accuracy, leading to weak grammar skills. It proposes incorporating more explicit grammar instruction and form-focused activities within communicative tasks to help students properly acquire accuracy while developing fluency.
The document discusses accuracy and fluency in language learning. It notes that while communicative methodologies emphasize both accuracy and fluency, programs that focus extensively on authentic communication often result in students developing fluency at the expense of accuracy, leading to weak grammar skills. It proposes incorporating more explicit grammar instruction and form-focused activities within communicative tasks to help students properly acquire accuracy while developing fluency.
? Accuracy and fluency ? Fluency-focused activities ? Conclusion
? Accuracy and fluency The development of communicative methodologies to replace the grammar-based methodologies of the seventies also resulted in a succession of experiments with different kinds of syllabuses (e.g. notional, functional, and content based) and an emphasis on both accuracy and fluency as goals for learning and teaching. The difference between accuracy-focused and fluency-focused activities can be shown as follows: ? Accuracy-focused activities ? Reflect typical classroom use of language ? ocus on the formation of correct examples of language use ? !roduce language for display (i.e. as evidence of learning ? "all on explicit knowledge ? #licit a careful (monitored) speech style ? Reflect controlled performance ? !ractice language out of context ? !ractice small samples of language ? $o not re%uire authentic communication
? Fluency-focused activities ? Reflect natural language use ? "all on implicit knowledge ? #licit a vernacular speech style ? Reflect automatic performance ? Re%uire the use of improvising& paraphrasing& repair and reorgani'ation ? !roduce language that is not always predictable ? (llow students to select the language they use . ? Re%uire real communication )owever the implementation of communicative and fluency-based methodology did not resolve the issue of what to do about grammar. The promise that the communicative methodologies would help learners develop both communicative competence as well as linguistic competence did not always happen. !rograms where there was an extensive use of *authentic communication*& particularly in the early stages of learning reported that students often developed fluency at the expense of accuracy resulting in learners with good communication skills but a poor command of grammar and a high level of fossilization ()iggs and "lifford +,-.). To address this problem it was argued that classroom activities should provide opportunities for the following processes to take place (#llis .//.): +. Noticing (the learner becomes conscious of the presence of a linguistic feature in the input& where previously she had ignored it) .. Comparing (the learner compares the linguistic feature noticed in the input with her own mental grammar& registering to what extent there is a * gap* between the input and her grammar) 0. Integrating or restructuring (the learner integrates a representation of the new linguistic feature into her mental grammar) !roposals as to how these processes can be reali'ed within the framework of current communicative methodologies include: ? 1ncorporating a more explicit treatment of grammar within a text- based curriculum ? 2uilding a focus on form into task-based teaching through activities centering on consciousness raising or noticing grammatical features of input or output . ? 3sing activities that re%uire *stretched output*& i.e. which expand or *restructure* the learner*s grammatical system though increased communicative demands and attention to linguistic form. ? Conclusion ? 4entence-grammar the focus of teaching ? 5inguistic competence the goal of learning ? 6rammar often taught divorced from context ? (ccuracy-based methodology
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