Xiao?Ping Zhong|Geraldine S. Wakat
Enhancing grammar proficiency of EFL learners through corpus-integrated lessons
Saint Louis University|Saint Louis University
article explores corpusintegrated lessons designed efl students chinese context aims shed light relations developmental research degree desired objective achieved utilized developmental explanatory sequential mixed methods quasiexperimental designs researcher built approximate 710000token corpus texts taken fifty bookworms literary books new concept english proficiency pretest also revealed following areas weaknesses word formation conjunction relative clause nonfinite verbs prepositions verbs hence lessons anchored weaknesses eight weeks implementation statistical evidence confirms hypothesis significant difference pretest posttest test subjected reliability validity test study yields promising results regarding efficacy ddlinspired lessons chinese high school students learning grammatical constructions comparisons pretest posttest perceptions collected semiopen interviews suggest 1 intermediate advanced senior high school students inductive learning superior effective deductive learning 2 corpusintegrated classroom resources need full involvement applied linguist educational psychologist textbook writer language teacher fulfill true potential 3 idea corpus literacy integrated curriculum teacher education program