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Impact of Textual Enhancement on EFL Learners’ Noticing and Acquisition of Noun and Verb Phrases

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It has been argued that textual enhancement (TE)—modifying the written input visually—can raise the saliency of target forms. This focus on form procedure can enable learner’s noticing of forms which is a crucial factor in language learning and acquisition. The fourteen-week quasi-experimental study reported in this chapter examined whether multiple exposures to enhanced texts could promote participant’s noticing and thereby grammatical development of three pairs of forms related to certain uses of articles, modal auxiliaries, and voice in the noun and the verb phrases. One hundred Bangladeshi tertiary learners participated in the study. They were divided into three groups: enhanced, non-enhanced, and control. A reading comprehension task, a noticing question, and two grammar tasks were used to elicit data. A pre-test along with post-tests was conducted. Six sets of texts were used. The data were analyzed quantitatively. The results revealed that multiple exposures to TE would be effective in increasing the noticing and acquisition of the targeted forms to different extents depending on their distinctive features. Based on the findings, we argue that teachers should take those features into account and introduce the forms by focusing on their form-meaning-function mappings in the class to promote learners’ grammatical development.

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    Akhter Jahan

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    Bijoy Lal Basu

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Jahan, A., Govindasamy, S. (2022). Impact of Textual Enhancement on EFL Learners’ Noticing and Acquisition of Noun and Verb Phrases. In: Khan, R., Bashir, A., Basu, B.L., Uddin, M.E. (eds) Local Research and Glocal Perspectives in English Language Teaching. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6458-9_19

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