Comparing the effect of teacher codeswitching with English-only explanations on the vocabulary acquisition of Chinese university students: A Lexical Focus-on-Form study

Language Teaching Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 367-391

  Tian, Lili ^a   Macaro, Ernesto ^b  

^a RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

classroom codeswitching; Focus on Form; second language; vocabulary acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864062559     PISSN: 13621688     EISSN: 14770954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362168812436909     Document Type: Article

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