Mini-game-supported controlled L2 practice improves accuracy and response times on a timed grammaticality judgment test relative to a control group¶
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q2 i? Treatment groups outperformed the control group on TGJT post-tests in accuracy rate and response times. → Cornillie 2015
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Cornillie 2015¶
Cornillie, F., & Desmet, P. (2015). Design and empirical evaluation of controlled L2 practice through mini-games—moving beyond drill-and-kill?. Critical CALL – Proceedings of the 2015 EUROCALL Conference, Padova, Italy. http://dx.doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2015.000325
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Between-subjects experiment with one control group (N=61) and two treatment groups (N=125); treatment groups received mini-game practice on English quantifiers and the double object construction. The article reports higher accuracy and faster responses for treatment groups, with no effect size printed.
"The data show that the treatment groups outperformed the control group on the post-tests of the TGJT in terms of accuracy rate and response times (see Figure 3)."
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Related Claims¶
- Mini-game-supported controlled L2 practice transfers to written productive use, with higher accuracy on a written discourse completion test — related
- Explicit form focus instruction with metalinguistic corrective feedback significantly improves adult ESL learners' implicit grammatical knowledge — related
- Corrective feedback on second-language errors has a significant effect on L2 development that is maintained on delayed tests — a broader claim this one bears on
- Time spent on mini-game practice predicts oral elicited imitation accuracy for learners aware of the grammar focus — related
- Transfer from mini-game practice to spoken production is smaller than transfer to written tasks — related
- Explicit metalinguistic feedback outperforms recasts on the delayed grammaticality judgment posttest — related
- Incidental focus on form via recasting during jigsaw retelling tasks improves EFL learners' overall grammatical accuracy — related
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