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标题：The Effects of Focused/Unfocused Audio-Appended Reading Tasks on Intermediate Female EFL Learners’ Written Accuracy
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作者：Parviz Alavinia ; Ali Shafaei ; Asghar Salimi 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Instruction
印刷版ISSN：1694-609X
电子版ISSN：1308-1470
出版年度：2018
卷号：11
期号：2
页码：203-220
出版社：International Journal of Instruction
摘要：The current research study was conducted to examine the impacts of focused andunfocused audio-appended reading tasks on female EFL learners’ acquisition of arule-bound structure (passive voice) and a non-rule-bound structure (prepositions).The participants of this study involved ninety intermediate female English learners.They were assigned into four experimental and two control groups on the basis ofthe instruction they were exposed to. The learners were instructed for ten sessionsvia focused and unfocused reading tasks. In the last session, the posttest of thestudy which included a rendering task was administered among the learners tomeasure their grammatical development. The results of the current researchrevealed significant differences between the performances of focused andunfocused groups in terms of the production element of accuracy in both ruleboundand non-rule-bound structures. The results of the current research showedthat the learners who were exposed to focused audio-appended reading tasksoutperformed the learners who were instructed by means of unfocused audioappendedreading tasks. The results of the current study can be helpful forresearchers in the field of second language acquisition (SLA), language teachers,and syllabus and task designers.
关键词：accuracy; focus on form; focused/unfocused audio-appended reading tasks;rendering task; task-based language teaching