IMPLICIT FORM

FOCUSED
INSTRUCTION
Presented by:
Tristan Perez Palomeque
Isabel Bustamante García
Pamela Arias Palomeque
WHAT IS IMPLICIT FORM
FOCUSED INSTRUCTION?
Is implemented in an indirect way by
massively exposing students to a specific
language feature but without making them
aware of the language feature they are being
exposed to
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
Encourages free use of No rule explanations or
directions to attend to forms
target form
to discover rules

Attracts attentions to
Minimal interruption of
language form
communication of meaning

 PURPOSE IMPLICIT FORM

FOCUSED INSTRUCTION
The information or problem to the
student and allows the student to make
their own conclusion and create their
own conceptual structures and
assimilate the information in the way
that makes the most sense.
 Awareness of syllables
PHONOLOGICAL
EXAMPLE
objective
To introduce the children to
the nature of syllables by
leading them to clap and count
the syllables in their own
names.
In groups of 5 children, one will be the
leader and will pronounce the first name
of one of the classmates syllable by
syllable while clapping. After clapping
each name, they will ask the other
classmates "How many syllables did you
hear?"
The teacher should supervise the
syllables and help all the children.
Once children have caught on, ask each
child to clap and count the syllables in
his or her own name.
 SEMANTIC
EXAMPLE

Create a semantic family with the next

words
Semantic family Tree

Car
objective
Computer

The student will be able to

Shoes
identify which words have a
relation with that main word
and know what semantic is.
 PRAGMATIC
EXAMPLE
Put in the correct place the comma to make sense the
sentence

Let's eat grandma

I like cooking my family and my pets

 SYNTAX IMPLICIT
EXAMPLE
Use the words from the two boxes and complete the following sentences,
when you finish read the sentence to the group to compare your answers.

verbs subjects
carrots The musician
brushes
The rabbit
eats
My mon
play
her teeth

the piano
Morphology implicit
Add suffixes "en" or "ise" used to form verbs with the meaning
"cause to be" to the following words

Visual
Symbol
Special
illegal
aesthetic
Awake
Fast
Short

 INPUT-DRIVEN
FORM-FOCUSED
INSTRUCTION
 WHAT IS?
Input in L2 acquisition serves as 'an obligatory entry point'
that consequently plays a very important role. Without it,
L2 learners would not succeed in acquiring the language.

Uses phonetic, grammatical and lexical examples as raw

materials
PURPOSE
Create the conditions for students to be
exposed to large amounts of input is to
try to make the student some how
perceive language forms that under
normal conditions would not be
perceived.
PRAGMATIC
EXAMPLE

Translate the following words

Hello!
Where is the library?
Can you give me your phone
number?
This is horrible
Pay attention, please
 With the next words identify a which
semantic field they belong

SEMANTIC one, two, three, four-

EXAMPLE soccer, basketball, volleyball-

apple, banana, strawberry-

monkey, dog, bird, cat-

 PHONOLOGICAL
EXAMPLE

doll Hen Parrot

/dɒl/ /hen/ /ˈpɛɹət/
 SYNTAX INPUT
EXAMPLE
Underline the subject in red in the following
sentences.
Consider that the subject can be:

YOUR COUSIN WAS LATE FOR

THE CONCERT

THE MIRROR BROKE

YOUR DOG ATE THE LASAGNA

THE COFFEE MAKER STOPPED

WORKING
Morphology input
Identify the prefixes by underlining them:

a. rewarded
b. misfortune
c. establish
d. submit
e. strawberry
f. abnormal
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