Incidental focus on form has no effect on the accuracy of prepositions¶

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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? Incidental focus on form did not have a significant effect on the accuracy of prepositions. → 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

The t-test comparing preposition test scores between the experimental and control groups found no significant difference, though the article refers to this category as 'propositions' (prepositions) inconsistently.

"incidental focus on form didn't have any effect on accuracy of propositions"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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• Written corrective feedback with an oral metalinguistic tutorial significantly improves Arabic EFL learners' preposition accuracy on an immediate post-test — related
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