Get it Right at the End

Interesting points in “Get It Right at the End “ proposal for teaching L2 (Ch. 6)

• The authors recognize the important role of the form-focused instruction, but they do not assume that everything has to be taught.
  
• They consider meaning-focused instruction as crucial for language learning, but think that learners will do better if they also have form-focused instruction.
  
• Some aspects of language need to be taught explicitly - in certain situations form-focused instruction or corrective feedback are extremely important.
• Teachers have to look for the right moment to create increased awareness on the part of the learner, ideally at a time when the learner is motivated to say something as clearly and correctly, as possible.
  
• Much of language acquisition will develop naturally out of meaningful language use. Through a study in a context-based classroom, focused on the verb forms, it was conformed that students who received corrective feedback made more progress in using the correct verb forms.
  

My conclusion:

After reading the 6 proposals to teaching L2, I believe that form-focused instruction and corrective feedback are important, but the student should be given multiple opportunities for continuous exposure to the linguistic features taught, and should be continuously practicing them through collaborative talk with the teacher and classmates, which eventually will lead to a greater understanding of their correct use.

I personally don’t understand why they say “Get it right at the End”. What end? End of a class or school? Isn’t the L2 learning a life long experience? Even if you start at a very early age, you can master fluency in the L2, but is that the end? One can always work on improving their language even if it’s L1.(Emilia)