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Publication type: Article
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| Title: |
Learning New Grammatical Structures in Task-Based Language Learning: The Effects of Recasts and Prompts
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| Author(s): |
GUCHTE,MARRIT VAN DE
(Author)
BRAAKSMA,MARTINE
(Author)
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| Source Journal Info. |
Title:The Modern language Journal
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Issue Number:2015/SUMMER V.99 N.2
Call No.:400.5 MLJ
Location: References & Periodical Hall - 2nd floor
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| Physical Description: |
p 246-262
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| Subject Area: |
Languages
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| Subject Terms: |
Languages, Modern
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| Accession Number |
141588
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Abstract
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In the present study, we examine the effects of prompts and recasts on the acquisition of two new and different grammar structures in a task-based learning environment. Sixty-four 14-year-old 9th grade students (low intermediate) learning German as a foreign language were randomly assigned to three conditions: two experimental groups (one receiving prompts, the other recasts) and a control group. The study involves two subsequent interventions: The first targeted a complex structure, dative case after a preposition; the second a simple structure, comparatives. ...
Abstract URL:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/modl.12211/abstract
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