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The present study seeks to compare the effects of integrated and isolated form-focused instruction(FFI, hereafter) on the learning of a target form. It further examines the effects of learners’ prior knowledge of the target form. To this end, 79 female students at a high school in Busan received one of the three different treatments over four sessions: integrated FFI, isolated FFI, or textbook-based reading instructions. The results showed that those exposed to the integrated and isolated FFI received higher scores on the comprehension posttest than those exposed to the reading instruction. On the production posttest, on the other hand, those who received the integrated FFI had higher scores than those who received the isolated FFI or the reading instruction. However, the interaction effects were not observed between the types of form-focused instruction and the level of the learners’ prior knowledge of the target form.