The effectiveness of deductive, inductive, implicit and incidental grammatical instruction in second language classrooms

This quasi-experimental study compares the effectiveness of deductive, inductive, implicit and incidental grammar instruction and investigates to what extent complexity influences these results. A total of 981 Dutch students in lower secondary education learning German, English or Spanish as a secon...

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Vydané v:System (Linköping) Ročník 45; s. 198 - 210
Hlavní autori: Tammenga-Helmantel, Marjon, Arends, Enti, Canrinus, Esther T.
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Elsevier Ltd 01.08.2014
Predmet:
Complexity
Effectiveness
Grammar
SLA
SLA
Effectiveness
Grammar
Complexity
ISSN:0346-251X, 1879-3282
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Shrnutí:This quasi-experimental study compares the effectiveness of deductive, inductive, implicit and incidental grammar instruction and investigates to what extent complexity influences these results. A total of 981 Dutch students in lower secondary education learning German, English or Spanish as a second language participated in this experiment. The design of the study consisted of a pre-test, a series of lessons about the degrees of comparison and a post-test. Both meta-linguistic knowledge and production of the grammatical structure were tested. By using analysis of variance, differences in students' test scores between instruction forms were examined. The findings show that any kind of grammar instruction (explicit and non-explicit forms) is more effective than no grammar intervention/exposure. Furthermore, complexity of the grammatical structure does not influence the effectiveness results.
ISSN:0346-251X
1879-3282
DOI:10.1016/j.system.2014.06.003