Incidental focus on form has a greater effect on the accuracy of articles than on pronouns and tenses¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q3
Currency · newest study 2015 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? The effect of incidental focus on form on grammatical accuracy of articles is greater than on pronouns and tenses. → Abdollahzadeh 2015

Evidence¶

Abdollahzadeh 2015¶

Abdollahzadeh, S. (2015). The Effect of Incidental Focus on Form on EFL Learners’ Grammatical Accuracy. Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 6(5). https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.6n.5p.40

q3 · i? · causal · r1

Separate t-tests on pronoun, article, tense, and preposition tests administered to both groups showed the treatment effect was greatest for articles relative to pronouns and tenses, though no effect size was reported.

"The data collected was computed through t-test which revealed that the effect of incidental focus on form on grammatical accuracy of articles is greater than pronouns and tenses but incidental focus on form didn't have any effect on accuracy of propositions."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Incidental focus on form improves accuracy of pronouns and tenses — related
• Incidental focus on form via recasting during jigsaw retelling tasks improves EFL learners' overall grammatical accuracy — a broader claim this one bears on
• Recasts on simple past tense errors outperform no feedback on oral accuracy in the final session (p = .040) — related
• Incidental focus on form has no effect on the accuracy of prepositions — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Purely meaning-focused activity without form-focused treatment did not lead learners to improve oral accuracy — related
• The review reports PI's superiority over TI is generalizable across structures and languages, including Spanish, Italian, French, and English — related