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Ellis, Rod – Language Learning, 2015
Idealization plays a fundamental role in scientific inquiry. This article examines the case for maintaining the claim that the second language acquisition (SLA) of grammatical structures such as negation manifests identifiable stages of acquisition. It proposes that, while research has demonstrated the need for de-idealization, there is no need to…
Descriptors: Language Research, Second Language Learning, Teacher Education, Grammar
Ellis, Rod – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
The author has worked as a language teacher, teacher educator, and second language acquisition (SLA) researcher for over forty years. During this time grammar has figured largely in his thinking, in part because it has traditionally been so central to language pedagogy and in part because he became fascinated with how the human mind grapples with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Autobiographies
Ellis, Rod – Language Teaching, 2010
Various positions regarding the Second Language Acquisition (SLA)-Language Pedagogy (LP) nexus have been advanced. Taking these as a starting point, this article will examine the nature of the SLA/LP relationship both more generally and more concretely. First, it will place the debates evident in the different positions regarding the relationship…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Teacher Collaboration, Researchers, Teacher Educators
Ellis, Rod – AILA Review, 2006
This article examines a variety of options for conducting investigations of the effects of interventionist form-focused instruction (FFI). Constructs related to three key areas of form-focussed instruction are presented; (1) the type of instruction, (2) the target of the instruction, and (3) the definition and measurement of "language…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Educational Research, Language Research
Ellis, Rod – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2006
The study of how learners acquire a second language (SLA) has helped to shape thinking about how to teach the grammar of a second language. There remain, however, a number of controversial issues. This paper considers eight key questions relating to grammar pedagogy in the light of findings from SLA. As such, this article complements…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Linguistic Theory

Ellis, Rod – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
Examines the role of form-focused instruction (FFI) in developing implicit knowledge by reviewing 11 studies that have examined the effect of FFI on learners' free production. Suggests that FFI can contribute to the acquisition of implicit knowledge and points to two variables that appear to influence its success--the choice the th target…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Language Research, Second Language Instruction

Ellis, Rod – Applied Linguistics, 1990
Responds to a previous article that attacks variabilists' accounts of second-language acquisition (SLA) by addressing the following issues: (1) the context dependency of theory in SLA research; (2) the competency performance distinction; (3) the problem of data in SLA research; and (4) explanations of SLA. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Models

Ellis, Rod – TESOL Quarterly, 1998
Reviews research that addresses how grammar can best be taught in terms of four theoretically motivated instructional options: (1) structured input; (2) explicit instruction; (3) production practice; (4) negative feedback. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Feedback, Grammar, Language Research
Ellis, Rod – Language Learning, 2004
A number of theories of second language L2 acquisition acknowledge a role for explicit L2 knowledge. However, the testing of these theories remains problematic because of the lack of a widely accepted means for measuring L2 explicit knowledge. This article seeks to address this lacuna by examining L2 explicit knowledge from two perspectives.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Aptitude, Grammar, Measures (Individuals)

Ellis, Rod – System, 1988
Contrasts two approaches for investigating second-language teaching, arguing that the educational approach, which starts with a pedagogical issue and examines it through pedagogical, theoretical, and empirical sources, is more comprehensive than the linguistic approach, which primarily consists of the applications of linguistic research.…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Educational Research

Ellis, Rod – System, 1985
Discusses the L1=L2 hypothesis which states that, all other things except knowledge of language being equal, first language acquisition is the same as second language acquisition. Reviews the evidence for and against the hypothesis, looks at current research and considers the general distinction between formal and informal learning. (SED)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Processing

Ellis, Rod – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1991
A critical examination of grammaticality judgment tasks in second-language acquisition research focuses on the theoretical assumptions underlying such tasks and describes an investigation indicating that grammaticality judgment tasks elicit a particular kind of performance that needs to be better understood before being used as a basis for…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammatical Acceptability, Language Research, Linguistic Theory

Ellis, Rod – Language Teaching Research, 2000
Examines theoretical views of language use, learning, and teaching that underlie the work on tasks. Two broad and disparate views are identified: the psycholinguistic perspective and a perspective based on sociocultural theory. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Language Research, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Instruction
Ellis, Rod – TESL Canada Journal, 1989
An exploration of second language acquisition research's traditionally separate focus on learners or learning, covering the development-as-sequence model, the development-as-growth model, learning style, cognitive orientation, and affective orientation, argues that a "whole" approach to language teaching must consider both the structural nature of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Language Research, Models

Ellis, Rod – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1989
Reports on a study of the classroom acquisition of German word order by adult learners. Results of the study support the claim that classroom and naturalistic second language acquisition of complex grammatical features such as word order follow similar routes. (50 references) (Author/OD)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Comparative Analysis, German, Grammar
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