Explicit Instruction: a study on production and interpretation of Noun-Noun and Adjective-Noun constructions
Year: 2023
Type: dissertation
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: This dissertation aims at exploring the role that explicit instruction plays in the L2 \nEnglish classroom to determine the effectiveness of this kind of instruction in L1 Spanish \nstudents in the first year of Bachillerato (Spanish High School). To do so, this dissertation \nemploys two grammatical structures: Noun-Noun (NN) and Adjective-Noun (AN) \nconstructions. Two different groups took part in developing this project: i) an instructed group \nand ii) a non-instructed group. Both groups were exposed to two different tasks: i) a production \ntask and ii) an interpretation task. The results obtained in the project indicate that the instructed \ngroup outperformed the non-instructed group, suggesting that explicit instruction has positive \neffects on students’ performance. The instructed group achieved a higher grammaticality in the \nproduction of NNs and ANs than the non-instructed group. Therefore, explicit instruction \nresults effective when teaching L2 English to L1 Spanish students.
Author: Fernández Lastras, Pablo
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6981737337