Measuring Chinese EFL Learners' Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of Relative Clauses

This study employs a mixed design to investigate the effects of time factor and clause type on Chinese EFL learners’ implicit and explicit knowledge of relative clauses. Eighty Chinese EFL learners were randomly assigned to one of two-time factor conditions and then tested on a grammaticality judgme...

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Main Author: Lei Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cranmore Publishing 2021-12-01
Series:International Journal of TESOL Studies
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description This study employs a mixed design to investigate the effects of time factor and clause type on Chinese EFL learners’ implicit and explicit knowledge of relative clauses. Eighty Chinese EFL learners were randomly assigned to one of two-time factor conditions and then tested on a grammaticality judgment task as well as on a sentence combination task to elicit their implicit and explicit knowledge of three types of relative clauses. It was found that, the learners had more accurate performance in untimed tasks than in timed ones; this finding is consistent with some previous studies’ findings. Clause type exerts a significant effect on Chinese EFL learners’ implicit and explicit knowledge of relative clauses, besides time factor and clause type had interaction effects. According to these findings, the article deepens the study of NPAH and it is suggested that multiple timed and untimed tasks could be designed to measure learners’ implicit and explicit knowledge.
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spelling doaj.art-cd3be65b4c7a4f63a351e9ea0beb28cf2022-12-22T04:13:03ZengCranmore PublishingInternational Journal of TESOL Studies2632-67792633-68982021-12-013482410.46451/ijts.2021.12.02Measuring Chinese EFL Learners' Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of Relative ClausesLei Zhang0Beijing University of Technology, China; Beijing Foreign Studies University, ChinaThis study employs a mixed design to investigate the effects of time factor and clause type on Chinese EFL learners’ implicit and explicit knowledge of relative clauses. Eighty Chinese EFL learners were randomly assigned to one of two-time factor conditions and then tested on a grammaticality judgment task as well as on a sentence combination task to elicit their implicit and explicit knowledge of three types of relative clauses. It was found that, the learners had more accurate performance in untimed tasks than in timed ones; this finding is consistent with some previous studies’ findings. Clause type exerts a significant effect on Chinese EFL learners’ implicit and explicit knowledge of relative clauses, besides time factor and clause type had interaction effects. According to these findings, the article deepens the study of NPAH and it is suggested that multiple timed and untimed tasks could be designed to measure learners’ implicit and explicit knowledge.https://www.tesolunion.org/attachments/files/4ODE1CY2Y2AMDBHFNZRM9ZGM2DNZA5DMDHJCZJKZ8ZDZHEMDCWAOGQ1AOGYW7ZDA58ZTYX2ZDC52NTI5EZTCYDY2E02LJMX5NZGW2MTQ2DLMY0.pdfclause typetime factorrelative clausesexplicit knowledgeimplicit knowledge
spellingShingle Lei Zhang
Measuring Chinese EFL Learners' Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of Relative Clauses
International Journal of TESOL Studies
clause type
time factor
relative clauses
explicit knowledge
implicit knowledge
title Measuring Chinese EFL Learners' Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of Relative Clauses
title_full Measuring Chinese EFL Learners' Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of Relative Clauses
title_fullStr Measuring Chinese EFL Learners' Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of Relative Clauses
title_full_unstemmed Measuring Chinese EFL Learners' Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of Relative Clauses
title_short Measuring Chinese EFL Learners' Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of Relative Clauses
title_sort measuring chinese efl learners implicit and explicit knowledge of relative clauses
topic clause type
time factor
relative clauses
explicit knowledge
implicit knowledge
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