The Effect of Using Input Enhancement on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners of L2 Adjective Knowledge

Journal of Teaching English Lnaguage Studies

مقاله 2، دوره 4، شماره 3، اردیبهشت 2016، صفحه 21-28   

نویسندگان

Mahboobeh Joze Tajareh^* ؛ Mohammadreza Khodareza

Department of English language, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, IRAN.

چکیده

The role of input is vital in the process of foreign language learning. This article intended to
investigate the effect of using input enhancement on Iranian intermediate EFL learners’
knowledge of L2 adjectives. The question of this study lied in the fact that whether using input
enhancement in classroom has any effects on intermediate EFL learners’ knowledge of L2
adjectives. This article considered some issues underlying input enhancement between two
languages and their effect on L2 adjective knowledge. The participants were 60 intermediate
EFL learners were homogenized by Oxford Placement Test and were divided in two groups, one
of them was control group and the other was the experimental group. The next step, the pretest of
adjectives knowledge was administered for both groups. Then treatment was administered in the
way that input enhancement was used in one group and there wasn’t any input enhancement in
control group. After that the posttest was administered in both groups and at the end the data was
analyzed by two way independent sample t-test and one-way ANCOVA. The result of study
showed that the null hypothesis of the study was rejected.

کلیدواژه‌ها

input enhancement؛ Consciousness Raising؛ L2 adjectives knowledge؛ EFL learners

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