Grammar consciousness-raising activities produce significantly higher grammar posttest scores than deductive grammar teaching for young EFL learners¶
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q2 i? Young EFL learners taught with GCR activities scored significantly higher on a grammar posttest than learners taught deductively (t = 4.39, p = .00). → Hamidreza Fatemipour & Shiva Hemmati 2015
Evidence¶
Hamidreza Fatemipour & Shiva Hemmati 2015¶
Hamidreza Fatemipour & Shiva Hemmati. (2015). Impact of Consciousness-Raising Activities on Young English Language Learners’ Grammar Performance. English Language Teaching, 8(9). http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v8n9p1
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Quasi-experimental pretest–posttest study with 30 experimental and 30 control participants (independent samples t test on posttest). Posttest means were 42.27 (experimental) and 33.60 (control); the article reports "a significant difference between the mean scores of the two groups on grammar posttest." No effect size is printed.
"the probability associated with the t-observed value (0.00) was lower than the significant level of (0.05). Based on these results, it can be concluded that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of the two groups on grammar posttest."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Syntax — outcome: instruction changes it
Related Claims¶
- Young EFL learners report positive attitudes toward grammar consciousness-raising, viewing it as useful and age-appropriate — related
- All student groups preferred deductive over inductive grammar instruction — related
- The GCR and control groups were equivalent in grammar performance before treatment — related
- Explicit grammar teaching outperforms implicit teaching; one review found the advantage only for complex rules, but a meta-analysis found it for simple rules too — a broader claim this one bears on
- Foreign learners of Turkish taught grammar with personalized texts scored significantly higher on the post-test than learners taught with ordinary textbook examples — related
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