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The interaction between learning style and grammar instruction for Korean students of English as a Foreign Language.

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Title/Author:	The interaction between learning style and grammar instruction for Korean students of English as a Foreign Language./
Author:	Lee, Kangsub.
Description:	1 online resource (245 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 60-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International60-08A.
Subject:	Bilingual education. -
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ISBN:	9780599067615

The interaction between learning style and grammar instruction for Korean students of English as a Foreign Language.
Lee, Kangsub.

The interaction between learning style and grammar instruction for Korean students of English as a Foreign Language. - 1 online resource (245 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 60-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Georgia, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references

This study extended earlier studies regarding the effects of interactive small group grammar tasks as opposed to traditional teacher-fronted grammar lessons. In particular, it investigated the effects of individual learning styles on students' achievement via the two instructional methods. Eighty four Korean students with intermediate level of English proficiency were each administered a Korean version of the Learning Style Profile, a bettery which was developed by the National Association of Secondary School Principals. The students were randomly assigned to one of three groups. In the first cycle of a grammar treatment, one group received instruction in a particular grammatical construction via a teacher-fronted lesson. The second group received instruction in the same grammatical construction via an interactive grammar task. The nongrammar group performed typical communicative activities. In a second cycle of grammar treatment, the two experimental groups switched instructional methods and received instruction in a second target grammatical construction. All groups took three pre- and posttests on the target structures. Outcome measures included a grammaticality judgment test, a sentence combining test, and a measure of stimulated sentence production of the target features. In addition, at the conclusion of the interventions, participants completed a questionnaire which asked for general attitudes toward the instructional methods. A repeated-measures ANCOVA was used to investigate any overall advantage of one instructional method over the other. Separate McNemer tests for change scores on each outcome measure tested whether some students achieved greater gains or more positive attitudes under one method rather than the other. Aptitude by treatment interaction analyses examined the match or mismatch of learning styles with the two methods of grammar instruction. Discriminant analysis investigated whether differential superiority for one teaching method or the other was predicted by elements of learning style. Separate regressions were run to investigate whether the amount of verbal negotiations in the grammar task exercises predicted achievement on the language proficiency measures. Results based on comparisons of the proficiency gains produced by the grammar task treatment with the gains produced by the nongrammar treatment indicated that there was significant difference in favor of the grammar task activities. The results of the McNemer test for sentence combining tests showed that the number of superior grammar task learners was significantly greater than the number of superior grammar lesson learners. Learning style preferences were able to predict more than 70% of the participants with respect to which instructional method worked best for them. In addition, aptitude by treatment interaction analyses showed that visual learning style is best accommodated by traditional teacher-fronted grammar lessons. Finally, this study showed that number of negotiation did not predict learning from grammar task exercises. In sum, these findings indicate that formal grammar instruction is facilitated when there is a match between the instructional method and the learners' learning style.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780599067615Subjects--Topical Terms:

1148431
Bilingual education.
Subjects--Index Terms:

English as a foreign languageIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

The interaction between learning style and grammar instruction for Korean students of English as a Foreign Language.
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