Evaluating Second Language Vocabulary and Grammar Instruction

Providing a much-needed critical synthesis of research on teaching vocabulary and grammar to students of a second or foreign language, this book puts the research into perspective in order to distil recommendations for language teaching.

Frank Boers is Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL at University of Western Ontario, Canada.

PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. The aim, scope and organization of this book 2. Estimating the chances of incidental acquisition PART II: IMPROVING THE CHANCES OF INCIDENTAL ACQUISITION 3. Enhancing textual input 4. From input to output (and back again) PART III: LANGUAGE-FOCUSED LEARNING 5. Evaluating the merits of inferencing and discovery learning 6. What practice makes (almost) perfect (and for what purpose)? 7. Making it stick PART IV: CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 8. Taking stock 9. Avenues Index