Form-Function Mapping in Content-Based Language Teaching: A Study of Interlanguage Restructuring

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This book presents a form-function mapping (FFM) model for balancing language and content gains within content-based language teaching (CBLT). It includes a theoretical part, which outlines the FFM model and, drawing on the analysis of eclectic teaching methods and interlanguage restructuring, proposes pedagogical tools for its implementation. These tools, which encourage mapping of language forms onto content knowledge, are hypothesized to facilitate interlanguage restructuring, thus helping CBLT learners in their struggle with L2 morpho-syntax. The empirical section presents the results of a quantitative–qualitative study conducted among adult L1 Polish learners of English in a CBLT context. It then goes on to translate the findings, which reveal that the FFM model has a positive and significant influence on interlanguage restructuring as well as a favorable reception among CBLT learners, into a set of pedagogical guidelines for practitioners. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxix Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 A Broader Design Context—The Form/Function Debate in L2A/FLL Research (Magdalena Walenta)....Pages 3-31 An Immediate Design Context—The Form/Function Debate in CBLT (Magdalena Walenta)....Pages 33-64 Toward the Form-Function Mapping Model (Magdalena Walenta)....Pages 65-111 Front Matter ....Pages 113-113 Research Method (Magdalena Walenta)....Pages 115-154 Results and Discussion (Magdalena Walenta)....Pages 155-232 Back Matter ....Pages 233-324