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- Title
The Error in Trial and Error: Exercises on Phrasal Verbs.
- Authors
Strong, Brian; Boers, Frank
- Abstract
An analysis of 44 commercially available English as a foreign language (EFL) textbooks found that it is common for textbooks to present learners with exercises on phrasal verbs without first providing relevant input to help them. In these cases, learners are likely to resort to trial and error and are then expected to learn from feedback. The authors report an experiment conducted with Japanese EFL students (N = 140) that compared the effectiveness of such a trial‐and‐error method with a retrieval procedure in which students first study a set of phrasal verbs and then complete an exercise. Scores on both an immediate and a 1‐week delayed posttest suggest superiority of retrieval over the trial‐and‐error procedure, where, despite the provision of feedback, 25% of the wrong exercise responses were reproduced in the delayed posttest.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language textbooks; JAPANESE students; LANGUAGE &; languages; VERBS; TERMS &; phrases
- Publication
TESOL Quarterly, 2019, Vol 53, Issue 2, p289
- ISSN
0039-8322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/tesq.478