the present study investigated comparatively the impact of two types of input enhancement (i.e. textual vs. compound enhancement) on developing grammar ability in iranian efl setting. sixty-five female secondary high school students were selected as a homogenous sample out of about a 100-member population based on nelson language proficiency test. then, their grammar ability was measured based ...

This study aims to implement grammatical competence strategies (inductive, inductive, and interactive) in developing students' writing grammar their attitudes towards English as a foreign language. To achieve the purpose of study, researchers applied tools target sample second intermediate grade female students at Maysaloon Girls School two groups, Experimental control were used this study. The...

this study was designed to investigate the effect of grammar and vocabulary pre-teaching, as two types of pre-reading activities, on the iranian efl learners’ reading comprehension from a schema–theoretic perspective. the sample consisted of 90 female students studying at pre-university centers of isfahan.  the subjects were randomly divided into three equal-in-number groups. they participated ...

Nearly all work in unsupervised grammar induction aims to induce unlabeled dependency trees from gold part-of-speechtagged text. These clean linguistic classes provide a very important, though unrealistic, inductive bias. Conversely, induced clusters are very noisy. We show here, for the first time, that very limited human supervision (three frequent words per cluster) may be required to induce...

The Grammar Translation Method and the Communicative Approach have both played important roles in grammar teaching. Which is better, the Grammar Translation Method or the Communicative Approach? This paper aims to compare the controllability and feasibility of these two approaches and find out which one is more suitable for grammar teaching in Taiwan. Two classes were selected and taught by the...

Teacher language awareness and its relationship to pedagogical practice (Andrews, 2003) have been identified as significant contributors to the teaching of grammar. Various TESOL programs teach pedagogical and theoretical grammar in different ways and some focus on specific approaches to grammar teaching, which include systemic functional grammar, transformational grammar, traditional grammar a...

This paper contributes to conversations which examine the effectiveness of grammar knowledge courses in native speaker (NS) UK pre-service TESOL education. A three-year longitudinal study was undertaken at a university. It explored 10 NS participants’ ability demonstrate grammatical awareness during their practicum after studying 48-contact hour explicit course before procedural education began...