Teaching Grammar. An Experiment in Applied Psycholinauistics. Assessing Thren Different Methods of Teaching Grammatical Structures in English as a Foreign Language.

UndervisningsMetod i Engelska-Gothenburg / Teaching/Methods/English) have shown that different methods of teaching English produce no significant differences in learning effects. In the present study, a direct continuation of earlier ones, modifications in design, teaching strategies, etc., were made in order to increase the probability of detecting true differences between methods, if such existed. Three methods were compared: the Implicit method, the Explicit-English method(Ee) , and the Explicit-Swedish method(Es). All three have systematized drills, but Fe and Es feature analysis and explanations as well; in Ee such explanations are given in English, in Rs in Swedish. The present study differed from earlier ones in several ways: a new type of explanation was used, the duration of the experiment was prolonged, and the grammatical content was more varied. Main effects were investigated by analysis of covariance and interaction effects by analysis of variance. Individual scores wer