Question 4 -- Work Group One

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Subject: Question 4

Author:
Luciana Amaral

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Date Posted: 12:36:58 08/22/10 Sun

I'm sorry for being so late.
I'm posting the second part of the answer to question 4.
Please, make yourselves free to change anything and Luciano, please, get the answers together, if you want me to do it, just post it here. If it's ok, just let me know.

Article 3 is an article about the importance of students knowledge about how to use the English they know in matter of form.
According to the article, being in contact with the language provides the students with the ability of communicating well and making themselves understandable, but not to use the form correctly, mainly because in the class meaning is privileged rather than form.
The studies show that most students of English (even native speakers) don�t know surely how to manage the differences between written and spoken language. So, the attention is called for the responsibility teachers have while helping the students to overcome these difficulties.
The description of procedures and methods adopted are very important. By reading them we can think about some unexpected things that we would not have possibly imagined before, once it describes real situations instead of only what the study was meant to be. Descriptions and methods are also very useful for the researchers to have support if something doesn�t work as it was predicted by their research in the future.
There is, for example, the fact that everything teachers teach is somehow affected by the previous experiences. By stating this, the researchers may want everybody to know that not everything can be controlled and the results may, sometimes, come out differently.
The conclusion of this article is that teachers should not take students� knowledge for granted and the form of a language is something that should always pointed out as a part of the language as important as grammar or meaning.

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