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The effects of formal instruction on the rate/success of SLA —presented by Cao Fang Chapter 9 The role of formal instruction in second language acquisition Questions 1.Long lists eleven studies about effects of formal instruction on the rate/success of SLA. What did he examine? 2.What are the weak points of the eleven studies considered by Long? 3.Studies on the relative utility of formal instruction can be divided into three types. What are they? 4:What procedures were adopted by Krashen and Krashen, Seliger and Hartnett in their studies and what are the main findings? 5:What procedures used by the other four studies and what are the main findings? 6.What do you think about the effects of formal instruction on the rate/success of SLA? Q1:Long lists eleven studies about effects of formal instruction on the rate/success of SLA. What did he examine? All of these studies examined the relative utility of instruction. That is, they were concerned with the overall effects of instruction on L2 proficiency in relation to the effects of simple exposure to the L2 in natural settings. Q2:What are the weak points of the eleven studies considered by Long? None of the studies examined the absolute effects of formal instruction, that is , whether instruction could speed up the acquisition of specific grammatical structures. The studies were not able to say whether formal instruction per se was more effective than exposure per se, but only whether instruction plus exposure was better than exposure than itself, or more instruction plus exposure was better than less instruction and exposure. Q3:Studies on the relative utility of formal instruction can be divided into three types. What are they? (1)Those studies that show a positive effect of instruction. (2)Those studies that are ambiguous. (3)Those studies that show no effect of instruction. Long discusses six studies that show a positive effect of formal instructio