Monitoring lowers accuracy for unlearnable rules: preposition usage was significantly less accurate in the more monitored style¶

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Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r3 · q2
Currency · newest study 1983 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on an ERIC document (a report, conference paper or thesis). It is kept because 3 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q2 i? In the same pilot study, preposition accuracy was significantly lower in the more monitored (edited) style (p < .05). → Adamson 1983

Evidence¶

Adamson 1983¶

Adamson, Douglas. (1983). Monitoring and the Monitor Model: Labov Versus Krashen. WATESOL Working Papers. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED242194

q2 · i? · theoretical · r3

In Ciske's four-style elicitation from one Korean student, the edited written style showed significantly lower preposition accuracy than less monitored styles. The author explains this via Krashen's claim that preposition rules cannot be learned and must be acquired; no effect size is printed.

"On the other hand, the accuracy of preposition usage is significantly lower in the more monitored style (p< .05)."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Metacognition — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

• Comprehensible input alone is insufficient for acquisition of high levels of grammatical proficiency — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
• Each language entails a conceptually different world, so exact translation of conceptual structure between languages is impossible — related
• Monitoring significantly improves a second language learner's accuracy on learnable rules (subject-verb agreement, regular past tense) in the most monitored style — related
• Monitoring is a variable phenomenon, not all-or-nothing, and monitoring in formal styles may pull up accuracy in less formal styles — related
• Morphological noticing focuses mainly on verb forms, especially modals, and on preposition choice — related
• A minority of item judgments show downregulation of confidence after pre-monitoring, suggesting differentiated evaluation can sometimes trigger more accurate monitoring — related