Incidental focus on form improves accuracy of pronouns and tenses¶
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q3 i? Incidental focus on form has a significant positive effect on the accuracy of pronouns and tenses. → Abdollahzadeh 2015
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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
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Separate t-tests on pronoun and tense tests administered to both groups after the main post-test showed significant differences favoring the experimental group, consistent with the study's hypotheses about "positive effect of incidental focus on form on grammatical accuracy of L2 learners".
"The results at the end supported the hypotheses of the study and positive effect of incidental focus on form on grammatical accuracy of L2 learners."
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Related Claims¶
- Incidental focus on form has a greater effect on the accuracy of articles than on pronouns and tenses — related
- Incidental focus on form has no effect on the accuracy of prepositions — related
- Incidental focus on form via recasting during jigsaw retelling tasks improves EFL learners' overall grammatical accuracy — a broader claim this one bears on
- Both explicit correction and or-choice feedback improved beginner EFL learners' accurate use of English tense markers over a ten-session instructional period — related
- Purely meaning-focused activity without form-focused treatment did not lead learners to improve oral accuracy — related
- Planned focus on form via corrective feedback on simple past tense errors improves Iranian EFL learners' oral accuracy by the final treatment session — related
- The review reports PI's superiority over TI is generalizable across structures and languages, including Spanish, Italian, French, and English — related
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