Mackey, Alison and Polio, Charlene and McDonough, Kim (2004) The relationship between experience, education, and teachers' use of incidental focus-on-form techniques. Language Teaching Research, 8 (3). pp. 301-327. ISSN 1477-0954
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This paper reports the findings of an empirical study that explored whether ESL teachers’ use of incidental focus-on-form techniques was influenced by their level of experience. The results showed that experienced ESL teachers used more incidental focus-on-form techniques than inexperienced teachers. A follow-up study investigated whether inexperienced ESL teachers’ awareness and use of incidental focus-on-form techniques could be influenced by education, specifically, their participation in a teacher education workshop. Overall, the studies demonstrate the importance of taking experience and education into account in research on teacher-initiated incidental focus on form.