Presenting grammar consciousness-raising tasks in EFL classrooms: the case of relative clauses

The controversial question of whether and how ‘grammar’ should be presented in L2 classrooms is a major issue discussed by SLA researchers. The present paper tries to explore the meanings of consciousness-raising, grammar consciousness-raising tasks, relative clauses and the role consciousness-raising plays in SLA. Then, the paper illustrated a relative clause activity as an example in the foreign language classrooms in which one type of relative clause was chosen as a consciousness-raising grammar activity in the hope that it would be transferred to other contexts in SLA instruction.