Focus on Form in Teaching Passive Voice of Different Tenses

AbstractDegree of learners’ attention in understanding grammar has been the concern of language teachers recently. This piece of research compared the effect of focus on form and focus on forms on learning of passive voice in different tenses. 56 adult EFL learners of intermediate level participated in this quasi-experimental study. After the pre-test given to both groups, participants of one group received focus on form instruction on passive voices in different tenses and the ones in the second group experienced focus on forms teaching techniques. A post-test was given to both groups after the treatment. The results of ANCOVA test revealed a significant difference between two groups with focus on form group outperforming focus on forms group in learning passive voice of different tenses. The results of this study are considered to be useful in teaching grammatical forms for language teachers and syllabus designers especially in EFL contexts