"I still can't questions": Issues Affecting EFL Development in an Immersion Environment

Bu çalışma yabancı dil olarak İngilizce’nin gelişimini yoğun bir pratik ortamında incelemiştir. İngilizce öğrenen yetişkin Çinli öğrencilere, zaman bazlı dilbilgisellik değerlendirme görevi kullanılarak, İngiltere’deki on aylık zaman diliminin başında ve sonunda İngilizce soru şekillerini edinimleri üzerine bir test uygulanmıştır. Katılımcılar 10 ayın sonunda belirgin bir biçimde daha çabuk tepkiler vermiş, ancak hedef dil bazlı doğrulukta belirgin bir fark görülmemiştir; ki bu hedef dil ortamında yoğun pratiğin yabancı dilde akıcılığı doğruluktan daha çok etkilediğini önermektedir.

This study examined the development of EFL proficiency in an immersion environment. Adult Chinese speakers of English were tested at the beginning and end of a ten-month period of immersion in the UK on their acquisition of English question forms using a timed grammaticality judgement task. Participants showed significantly faster response times after ten months, but no significant difference in accuracy of target-like judgements, suggesting that immersion benefits fluency more than accuracy.

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