Effect of a Corpus-based Grammar Teaching Method in the Chinese EFL Environment

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10.2991/iceemr-18.2018.67How to use a DOI?

Keywords

corpus-based, grammar teaching, Chinese EFL classroom, effect

Abstract

The present study sets out to explore the effect of corpus-based grammar teaching method in the EFL context. Participants were 40 Chinese undergraduate EFL learners who were assigned to the experimental and control class through random sampling and then were taught with the corpus-based teaching method and the traditional teaching method respectively. The two classes kept conformity as regards the teacher, the grammar coursebook and the period distribution. Pre-test showed that there was no statistically significant difference between the two classes. After a one-term teaching experiment, however, post-test revealed a higher grammatical proficiency of the experimental class. Besides, interviews and class observations also demonstrated that students in the experimental class underwent change in their ideology of grammar. They endorsed the corpus-based teaching method and took a positive attitude towards it at large. Pedagogical implications of these findings, limitations of this study and suggestions for the future research are discussed.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Xin Wang
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TI  - Effect of a Corpus-based Grammar Teaching Method in the Chinese EFL Environment
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Education, Economics and Management Research (ICEEMR 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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