Second Language Learning in The Classroom
Introduction
In this chapter we are going to focus on Experimental Studies that were designed to test hypotheses about how teaching affects second language learning. There are six proposal for second and foreign language teaching, provide examples from classroom interaction:
1. Get it right from the beginning
2. Just listen…and read
3. Let’s talk
4. Two for one
5. Teach what is teachable
6. Get it right in the end
As we saw in chapter 5, quantitative research may be essentially descriptive, but it may also be experimental, involving careful control of the variable that may influence learning.