Proactive intensive form-focused instruction (FFI)

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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q3 · 1 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

Proactive intensive FFI is a type of form-focused instruction in which the teacher selects demanding target forms before instruction and treats a limited number of features in depth. In this study it comprised three components: "metalinguistic explanations, i.e. explicit explanations of the grammar", "repeated form-focused tasks", and "explicit corrective feedback on form", delivered within free discussion classes over nine sessions targeting nine verb tenses.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Instruction must be embedded in meaning-focused communicative classes, integrating form with meaning as the article's FFI framework prescribes.
• A limited set of target forms must be selected prior to instruction and treated intensively across repeated tasks.

Constraints

• The study tested it only with intermediate and advanced adult Persian-speaking EFL learners in a four-week free discussion program.

Target Learners

• Intermediate and advanced adult EFL learners

Learning Goals

• Grammatical knowledge of English verb tenses

Claims

• Proactive Intensive Ffi Improves Grammar Intermediate Advanced [+M]
• Ffi Groups Outperform Control Grammar [+M]

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Key Sources

• Amir Rooholamin, Reza Biria & Hamid Reza Haghverdi. (2016). Effectiveness of Proactive Intensive FFI in Cultivating Grammatical Knowledge of Iranian EFL Learners at Different Proficiency Levels. English Language Teaching, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v9n3p197

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title	Proactive intensive form-focused instruction (FFI)
description	Proactive intensive FFI is a type of form-focused instruction in which the teacher selects demanding target forms before instruction and treats a limited number of features in depth.
status	review
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