ILKAY CELIK-YAZICI

Cukurova University (Turquía/Turkey)

A study of the effects of processing instruction on the development of english wh-questions and ergative verbs used by turkish efl learners

Teoría Lingüística y Metodología / Linguistic Theory and Methodology

This is a comparative study on the effectiveness of processing instruction (PI) and traditional instruction (TI) on L2 acquisition of the English wh-questions by Turkish EFL learners. Specifically, we will examine whether processing instruction and traditional instruction will bring about improved performance on sentence-level tasks involving the interpretation and production of the English wh-questions which are difficult structures for Turkish EFL learners to acquire since in their L1 there is no obligatory movement of wh-element to a specific position within the question structure. Therefore, it is assumed that processing instruction may help them to acquire this structure more easily. So, the central question addressed here is: Can PI facilitate second language development? The study will employ a pretest-posttest research design. The participants from YADIM (Foreign Language Center at Cukurova University) will be randomly designated as processing instruction group (PI, n=30) and a traditional instruction group (TI, n=30). The data in this study will be collected through four tasks: Grammaticality Judgment Task (GJT), Picture-Cued Task (PCT), a written translation task, and the instructor log. Both the quantitative and the qualitative data will be analyzed and discussed.


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