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    Data-driven analysis on the weight of the explicit and implicit construct in ELT textbooks.
    (Universidad de A Coruña, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2010) Criado, Raquel; Sánchez Pérez, Aquilino; Filología Inglesa
    It is generally accepted that there is a close relationship between explicit and declarative knowledge, and between implicit and procedural knowledge. Explicit is also associated with learning in which consciousness is engaged, while implicit is associated with acquisition, which takes place without a conscious control of the process. Research in explicit and implicit knowledge should have a counterpart in real language teaching and in the classroom, if research is to be the trigger of innovation and open new frontiers in ELT. The promotion of explicit or implicit knowledge (learning or acquisition of language) is necessarily present in the teaching materials and/or in the classroom action. As regards teaching materials, the minimal teaching unit par excellence, the exercise or activity, should reveal the nature of the type of knowledge aimed at. In this study a corpus with the activities of an ELT textbook was compiled. This was then analysed and systematised from the perspective of its explicit and implicit potential. The results show whether the textbook complies or not (and how much) with the requirements leading to explicit or implicit learning. --------------------------------