Form-focused instruction (FFI) and language features attended to during content-based instruction (CBI) lessons at a southeastern Mexican university

Andrés Arias de la Cruz; Gisela Domínguez Barrera; Eleazar Morales Vázquez

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dc.creator	Andrés Arias de la Cruz
dc.creator	Gisela Domínguez Barrera
dc.creator	Eleazar Morales Vázquez
dc.date	2019
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-29T14:21:13Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-29T14:21:13Z
dc.identifier	http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=44759854003
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/145366
dc.description	One of the shortcomings commonly associated to Content-based Instruction is the scarce attention teachers give to the linguistic aspects of the target language. In Mexico there are 33 public universities offering Bachelors of Arts (BAs) in English language teaching in which content courses are taught; however, very little is known about how these courses are taught and whether teachers focus on linguistics aspects of the target language or not. This article shows the results of a study carried out aiming to determine if Form-Focused Instruction (FFI) was implemented in two Content Courses at a Southeastern Mexican University as well as the type of FFI implemented by teachers. Through the use of a qualitative method, based on a descriptive case study, two teachers teaching content subjects to two groups of students (n=55) in a Mexican undergraduate programme were observed. After fifteen hours of observation, lessons were analysed using the Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching (COLT) Scheme. The results showed that the participant teachers implemented only reactive FFI while no evidence of proactive FFI was found. The linguistic features attended to were mostly vocabulary, pronunciation while grammar features were barely covered. There is not a true integration of content and language in these two CB courses. CB teachers need to make use of proactive FFI to direct students attention to less salient features of the target language.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Universidad de Costa Rica
dc.relation	http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=447
dc.rights	Revista Electrónica "Actualidades Investigativas en Educación"
dc.source	Revista Electrónica "Actualidades Investigativas en Educación" (Costa Rica) Num.1 Vol.19
dc.subject	Educación
dc.subject	Content-based instruction
dc.subject	teaching methods
dc.subject	english teaching
dc.title	Form-focused instruction (FFI) and language features attended to during content-based instruction (CBI) lessons at a southeastern Mexican university
dc.type	artículo científico