Supporting adult L2 learners’ contextualized grammar knowledge and presentation skills when working with tasks related to work placements

Abstract

This study investigates how a teacher’s feedback on oral presentations was integrated with grammar teaching in Swedish for immigrants (SFI) directed to adult learners of Swedish. It focuses on a course where students participated in both workplace placements and classroom activities. The data consists of transcribed audio recordings of six lessons. The findings show that the teacher’s feedback on the students’ presentations focused on the interplay between written keywords and oral elaborations, as well as the use of visual resources. Moreover, the teacher used the students’ presentations as a starting point for discussing grammatical features in context. We discuss the findings in relation to research on focus on form (FonF) and contextualized grammar teaching, demonstrating how these traditions can complement each other. We argue that the findings have implications for second language teaching more broadly, highlighting the value of integrating multimodal elements into language instruction and using students’ multilingualism as a resource.