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标题：Investigating the Effect of Visually-enhanced Input on the Acquisition of Lexical Collocations by Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners: A Case of Verb-noun Lexical Collocations
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作者：Fahim, Mansoor ; Vaezi, Ramin
期刊名称：Journal of Language Teaching and Research
印刷版ISSN：1798-4769
出版年度：2011
卷号：2
期号：3
页码：552-560
DOI：10.4304/jltr.2.3.552-560
语种：English
出版社：Academy Publisher
摘要：This study evaluates the potentially relative effectiveness of visual/textual input-based enhancement on the acquisition of Verb-Noun lexical collocations by Iranian intermediate EFL learners. To this end, ninety-six intermediate learners were selected and randomly assigned to three equal groups. Having administered a pre-test, the three groups attended ten sessions of intervention in which all the learners received the same set of ten reading passages; nevertheless, the first experimental group (EG1) received reading passages in which the collocations bolded or CAPITALIZED. The subjects in the second experimental group (EG2) underwent a conventional-based treatment. The control group (CG) received no specific instructions. Later, the three groups took a post-test. The results indicated that both visually/textually enhanced input and conventional method of teaching have a statistically significant effect on the acquisition of target items. Moreover, it can be concluded that visual/textual input-based enhancement can be as beneficial as conventional method of teaching.
关键词：visual/textual enhancement;conventional instruction;lexical collocations;Iranian EFL learners