Which one comes first in your classes? Form or meaning!

This article tries to raise consciousness of both pre- and in-service teachers’ awareness of a new approach (focus on form) to language teaching. To this end, it starts with a brief review of literature in language teaching talking about the most outstanding previous approaches to teaching. It, then, proceeds by talking about the dissatisfaction with the previous methods of teaching and the reason why there was a need for a new approach. Having done so, it introduces the focus on form approach to teaching and gives thorough explanation about it, its different types, and how to use it in real language classrooms. It also provides the readers with clear and ample examples of focus on form and how it is used in real classes to make the issue easier to understand. It concludes by recommending that teachers use this approach in their classes, but it does not take a prescriptive approach in doing so, rather it tries to be descriptive.