Volume 36, No. 1 Incidental Grammar Acquisition Through Meaning-focused Reading: Structure Frequency and Reading Comprehension

Incidental Grammar Acquisition Through Meaning-focused Reading: Structure Frequency and Reading Comprehension

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Volume 36, No. 1
contributor.author:
Nguyen, Chi Duc
date.accessioned:
2024-04-19T21:58:45Z
date.available:
2024-04-19T21:58:45Z
date.copyright:
2024
date.issued:
2024-04-22
description.abstract:
Research shows that meaning-focused reading offers opportunities for incidental grammar acquisition. However, the number of such studies remains limited and none have examined the role of both in-text encounters with grammar structures and reading comprehension in this learning. The present study filled these gaps. Employing a between-group, pretest-posttest-delayed-posttest experiment, this study examined to what extent four groups of English-as-a-Foreign-Language adult learners (n = 132) in Vietnam learnt two specific grammar structures through meaning-focused reading in which they encountered these structures four, six, eight, or ten times. A control group (n = 30) was also added to this experiment to gauge test-taking effects. Grammar gain was measured by a self-report grammar-knowledge scale, while content comprehension by a topic-matching task. All treatment groups were found to make sizeable grammar gains, especially after six encounters with the structures. Reading comprehension could also predict the learning gains. These findings offer various useful pedagogical implications.
endingpage:
22
format.extent:
22
identifier.citation:
Nguyen, C. D. (2024). Incidental Grammar Acquisition Through Meaning-focused Reading: Structure Frequency and Reading Comprehension. Reading in a Foreign Language, 36(1). 1-22. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/67461
identifier.issn:
1539-0578
identifier.uri:
https://hdl.handle.net/10125/67461
language:
eng
number:
1
publicationname:
Reading in a Foreign Language
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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/rfl/item/596
startingpage:
1
subject:
meaning-focused reading, incidental grammar acquisition, in-text encounters with grammatical structures, content comprehension, reading comprehension, Input Processing, Form Meaning Use Model
title:
Incidental Grammar Acquisition Through Meaning-focused Reading: Structure Frequency and Reading Comprehension
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Article Text
volume:
36