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Comparing the Effects of Explicit and Implicit Teaching Using Literary and Nonliterary Materials on Learner's Pragmatic Comprehension and Production
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Hosseini, Mohammad Baqerzadeh; Pourghasemian, Hossein – Cogent Education, 2019
The present paper explored how plays could contribute to pragmatic development when employed as a medium of implicit or explicit instruction. 80 undergraduate English-major students were divided into four experimental groups two of which were literary and two nonliterary. Implicit Literary, as one of the literary groups was exposed to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Language Tests, Speech Acts
Iranian Pre-University Student's Retention of Collocations: Implicit Exposure or Explicit Instruction
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Gheisari, Nouzar; Yousofi, Nouroldin – Cogent Education, 2016
The effectiveness of different teaching methods of collocational expressions in ESL/EFL contexts of education has been a point of debate for more than two decades, with some believing in explicit and the others in implicit instruction of collocations. In this regard, the present study aimed at finding about which kind of instruction is more…
Descriptors: Retention (Psychology), Pretests Posttests, Multiple Choice Tests, Phrase Structure