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Glossary 21.10 Glossary

Deductive teaching.
Teaching that moves from explicit rule presentation to practice.
Error.
A systematic mistake reflecting incomplete acquisition.
Explicit knowledge.
Conscious, verbalizable knowledge about language rules.
Focus on form.
Brief attention to linguistic features during communicative activities.
Implicit knowledge.
Unconscious, automatic knowledge that underlies fluent language use.
Inductive teaching.
Teaching that moves from examples to rule discovery.
L1.
First language; native language.
L2.
Second language; additional language.
Metalinguistic awareness.
Conscious knowledge about language structure.
Recast.
Corrective feedback that rephrases the learner’s utterance correctly.