The Relevance of SLA Research to Language Teaching from Teachers" Perspective (original) (raw)

Second language acquisition (SLA) research, the mostly said and heard term in recent years among second language researchers, is regretfully a kind of Cinderella term for the majority of EFL teachers. Strictly speaking, when SLA research began to emerge as a separate discipline, one of the hopes was that it would benefit language teaching (Corder, 1973). Oddly enough, in recent years SLA research has mostly seen its role as raising teachers" awareness of SLA concepts rather than affecting teaching directly. By and large, it supposedly sounds that EFL teachers" taking advantage of SLA research results is not widespread. Accordingly, the current paper is an attempt to meticulously analyze and evaluate some articles so as to reach a sound conclusion in this regard. The overall result revealed that although there are some gaps between SLA research and teachers, those gaps can universally be bridged by moving EFL teachers from the more usual and traditional role as consumers of...