Chung, Y;
Révész, A;
(2021)
Investigating the effect of textual enhancement in post-reading tasks on grammatical development by child language learners.
Language Teaching Research
10.1177/13621688211005068.
(In press).
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Abstract
This study examined the extent to which textual enhancement incorporated into the post-task stage of task-based reading lessons can promote development in second language (L2) grammatical knowledge. The participants were 49 child language learners who participated in task-based reading lessons in their own classroom contexts. They were randomly assigned to two groups, one being exposed to textual enhancement and the other not. The experiment adopted a multiple-exposure design involving six treatment sessions over three weeks. The target construction was the third person singular -s morpheme. Pretest-posttest development was assessed with a grammaticality judgement test. The results revealed a small but positive effect for textual enhancement. We attributed the relative success of textual enhancement to a combination of factors: use of a multiple-exposure design, the incorporation of textual enhancement into the post-task rather than the during-task stage, age of participants, and prior knowledge.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Investigating the effect of textual enhancement in post-reading tasks on grammatical development by child language learners |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/13621688211005068 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F13621688211005068 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 by SAGE Publications. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | grammar learning, input enhancement, reading tasks, task-based language teaching, textual enhancement, third person singular -s, young learners |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10133627 |
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