The most effective teachers in Minneapolis Public Schools already engage in Focused Instruction every day, and the impact on student learning is undeniable. Our work is to develop the necessary tools and systems for Focused Instruction to become standard practice in every classroom. Is Form-Focused Vocabulary Instruction Worth While? Beniko Mason that direct instruction is more effective than incidental vocabulary acquisition and that combining the form focused exercises helped subjects in the story-plus-study group learn more new Prof. Spada talks about CLT & form-focused instruction Further details from www.tesolacademic.org/keynotesnew.htm#921914519 In this interview, form-focused instruction, research methods, and future research questions in SLA are discussed with Professor Nina Spada. The interview took place in December 2016 with the help Over the past few decades, the focus of classroom instruction has shifted from an emphasis on language forms to use of language within communicative contexts. This has brought about the question of the place of form-focused instruction (FFI) in classroom activities (Brown, 2000). Focusing on form: A teacher's research update on form-focused instruction 1 Spada (1997) defined "form-focused instruction" (FFI) as "any pedagogical effort which is used to draw the learners' attention to language form either implicitly or explicitly" (p. 73). Form-Focused Instruction and Second Language Learning: Language Learning Monograph, Volume 4. Rod Ellis. ISBN: 978--631-22858-5. to describe the teaching-learning behaviors that take place there and to investigate to what extent and in what ways instruction results in acquisition. Focus on form, on the other hand, is a term that he reserves to refer to instruction that draws learners' attention to form in the context of meaningful communication. intensive form-focused instruction. As can be observed, this kind of focus on form was EFFECTS OF FORM-FOCUSED INSTRUCTION ON