Syntactic rather than semantic processing of input is essential for correcting incomprehensible output¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · qualitative r2 · q1
Currency · newest study 1990 · 1 of 2 entries checked against their sources (automated) · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q1 i? Correcting incomprehensible output required grammatical analysis of input structure, as when journal review revealed the need for "have the telephone installed" instead of "install the telephone". → Yu Liming 1990 q1 i? Pushing for comprehensible output by eliminating incomprehensible output occurs in four situations: using words correctly in context, comparing own output with native input, replacing old expressions with newly learned ones, and testing new hypotheses. → Yu Liming 1990 (2)

Evidence¶

Yu Liming 1990¶

Yu Liming. (1990). The Comprehensible Output Hypothesis and Self-directed Learning: A Learner's Perspective. TESL Canada Journal/Revue TESL du Canada, Vol. 8, No. 1. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ420159 doi:10.18806/tesl.v8i1.575

q1 · i? · qualitative · r2

Diary self-study: after misusing "fix" and "establish" for "install", only journal review with grammatical analysis revealed the correct pattern, showing a transition "from semantic processing of input to syntactic processing" requiring conscious effort.

"It was my grammatical analysis of the structure of this input that was made when I was reviewing my journal that led me to realize "install the telephone" used on the above occasion was incomprehensible output."

Yu Liming 1990 (2)¶

Yu Liming. (1990). The Comprehensible Output Hypothesis and Self-directed Learning: A Learner's Perspective. TESL Canada Journal/Revue TESL du Canada, Vol. 8, No. 1. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ420159

q1 · i? · qualitative · r2

Diary self-study enumerating four situations for eliminating incomprehensible output, illustrated by the "fix", "move us", "ease up" and "drop the party" journal examples; the author states attention to form was necessary in all of them.

"In the light of my diary study, pushing for comprehensible output by eliminating incomprehensible output takes place in the following four situations: (I) when I am developing an ability to use words correctly in context"

Discussion¶

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