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Second language acquisition research: how does it help teachers? An interview with Rod Ellis (1993)

New words
-Subsequent experiments failed to replicate these findings.
-I can’t envisage working with him again.
-Measures to protect the environment could be compatible with economic growth.

Main point
These three approaches are compatible with the ways of learning grammar.
Focused communication activity
This activity improves learners’ grammar accuracy under real operating condition. When learners make errors grammatically, teachers request for clarification deliberately. In some cases, the learners can reformulate correctly.
Grammar conscious-raising activity
The activity encourages learners to try to construct their own explicit grammar. Learners are provided a list of sentences with two different structures and are asked to distinguish into two. And then they need to explain the differences.
Interpretation grammar activity
This is a listening comprehension activity which supply learners with input manipulated to include the target grammatical structure. After listening learners need to explain the meaning of the structure.

My Idea
The three activities seem to be a little old because the article was published in 1993, more than 10 years ago. I’d like to know more practical and useful activities for grammar.