Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Reconsidering the Role of Explicit Learning

This work culminating years of research among Arab and non Arab TESOL instructors argues for the adoption of a particular type of instruction(Explicit Form-Focused)---one which promotes perception(i.e., noticing and understanding) in the context of meaning-focused activities. The study also argues that an investigation of this approach on L2 learner's linguistic competence with competence in this sense being the ability to both recognize and produce contextually accurate language with standard English speech.