خلاصه ماشینی:
"The Comparative Effect of Explicit Focus on Form and Dictogloss Task on Learning English Tenses Mojgan Rashtchi Pooneh Khosroabadi Abstract Keywords: Introduction The role of grammar is perhaps one of the most controversial issues in language teaching.
g. Doughty & Williams, 1998; Norris & Ortega, 2000; Ellis, 2002) and indicates that such studies have demonstrated evidence that FonF facilitates second language (L2) learners’ acquisition of target morpho-syntactic forms or features.
However, concerning the question of what particular linguistic forms learners mainly focus on during meta-talk, recent research has proved that less attention is given to grammatical features than lexical meanings (Toshiyo, 1996; Williams, 1999; García Mayo, 2002).
Accordingly, two FonF techniques were chosen (EFF and DG) and the following research question was posed: 104 Is there any significant difference between the impact of using dictogloss and explicit focus on form instructions on elementary EFL learners’ achievement of the past, present, and present continuous tenses?
Table 2 – Explicit focus on form activities Step Teacher Student 1 Introducing the grammar rule Listening Asking students to answer the Doing the 2 exercises in their books exercises Asking students to generate some 3 Making sentences sentences in the introduced tense Correcting their 4 Checking their answers mistakes Posttest Once the treatment was over, the same achievement test used in the pretest was administered as the posttest to determine any possible gain difference in the scores of the participants."