Four-condition computerized training design for implicit, incidental, rule-search, and instructed L2 rule learning¶
Design · All designs
Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 causal),q3· 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study
Description¶
A computerized training apparatus in which 104 adult ESL learners were randomly assigned to implicit, incidental, rule-search, or instructed conditions, then judged novel tokens of easy and hard rule sentence types. Speed and accuracy of these grammaticality judgments served as the dependent measures, allowing comparison of learning conditions across simple and complex rules in a single randomized design.
Design Implications¶
Context¶
Requirements¶
- Random assignment of learners across the four training conditions and computerized presentation of training and judgment trials
Constraints¶
- Studied with adult learners of English as a second language in a computerized laboratory setting
Target Learners¶
- Adult learners of English as a second language
Learning Goals¶
- Acquiring simple and complex second language grammatical rules under different attentional and instructional conditions
Claims¶
- Instructed learners outperform all other condition groups in learning simple second language rules [+W]
- Implicit learners do not outperform other learners on complex second language rules [+W]
Related Designs¶
Examples¶
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Key Sources¶
- Peter Robinson. (1996). Learning Simple and Complex Second Language Rules Under Implicit, Incidental, Rule-Search, and Instructed Conditions. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Volume 18, Issue 1, pp. 27-67. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263100014674
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Four-condition computerized training design for implicit, incidental, rule-search, and instructed L2 rule learning |
description |
A computerized training apparatus in which 104 adult ESL learners were randomly assigned to implicit, incidental, rule-search, or instructed conditions, then judged novel tokens of easy and hard rule sentence types. |
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