Washback Effect of Grammar Learners’ Test Preparation Conditions on English Production and Its Pedagogical Implications

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· 발행기관 : 한국외국어대학교 영미연구소
· 수록지 정보 : 영미연구 / 41권 / 103 ~ 134페이지
· 저자명 : 남현정

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This study aims to suggest a practicable way of promoting L2 grammar for language production for English educators faced with limitations in their pedagogical circumstances. It investigates the washback effect of the learners’ test preparation conditions on English sentence production under the same grammar instruction. Two different test preparation conditions (conventional multiple choice vs. production- based test) were administered to evaluate 101 university students’ grammar knowledge. The results from a paired t-test and ANOVA confirmed that the production-based test preparation has a positive effect on promoting L2 learners’ grammar knowledge for language use. In addition, the findings regarding stimuli effect suggest that instead of storing grammar rules as stimuli in the learners’ memory system, the production with L2 stimuli was most promoted in the condition of the production-based test preparation. This has significant implications for some Korean L2 learners whose grammar is stored as metalinguistic knowledge separately from the L2 system and thus it can be hard to facilitate an effective L2 production.

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