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SUMMARY:Is ‘goed’ a word? Young EFL learners’ attention to form in c
 ollaborative tasks - Professor María del Pilar García Mayo (Universidad 
 del País Vasco)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251120T130000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251120T140000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Grammar is crucial to language and language learning. Research
  into grammar instruction (i.e. interventional efforts to direct learners
 ’ attention to particular grammatical forms) has been a central topic in
  the field of second language acquisition (SLA) due to its importance in a
 ssisting second language (L2) learners to develop communicative competence
 . Over the last three decades\, the role of grammar instruction in second/
 foreign language contexts has been reconsidered on the basis of findings i
 n the field of L2 research with adult learners. Studies highlight the need
  to identify effective instructional procedures to focus on formal aspects
  of language\, enabling learners to notice the mismatch between their inte
 rlanguage and the target language. Moreover\, there is now broad consensus
  that pedagogical intervention is facilitative and may even be indispensab
 le in foreign language (FL) learning contexts\, where learners receive min
 imal L2 input- typically only a few hours per week.\n\nAlthough the early 
 learning of English as a foreign language (EFL) in school settings has gro
 wn exponentially over the past twenty years\, one population that remains 
 underexplored regarding these issues is children aged 6-12.  This talk wil
 l share ways in which interactive collaborative tasks can draw children’
 s attention to formal aspects of English. Our research\, grounded within c
 ognitive-interactionist and sociocultural frameworks\, demonstrates how gr
 ammar focused tasks\, input enhancement and collaborative writing - combin
 ed with the manipulation of implementation variables (task repetition\, ta
 sk modality) and explicit metalinguistic explanations- help children focus
  on formal aspects of the language. Importantly\, these instructional proc
 edures enable children to resolve problematic issues without teacher inter
 vention. We will conclude by identifying challenges and further research d
 irections for effective grammar pedagogy for young learners.\n\nBio: Marí
 a del Pilar García Mayo is Full Professor of English Language and Linguis
 tics at the University of the Basque Country (Spain)\, Honorary Professor 
 at University College London and Honorary Consultant for the Shanghai Cent
 er for Research in English Language Education. She has published widely on
  two strands of research\, namely\, formal L2/L3 acquisition (generative a
 pproach)\, and cognitive-interactionist theory\, examining the impact of c
 onversational interactions on language development in low-input\, foreign 
 language settings. Prof. Garcia Mayo is the director of the research group
  Language and Speech and the MA program Language Acquisition in Multilingu
 al. She is also the editor of Language Teaching Research and belongs to th
 e Steering Committee of the Spanish State Research Agency. \n\nhttps://www
 .laslab.org/staff/pilar\n\nTeams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetu
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 s:\nProfessor María del Pilar García Mayo (Universidad del País Vasco)
LOCATION:15 Norham Gardens (Seminar Room G/H (Department of Education) and
  MS Teams)\, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
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