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Exploratory teaching of grammar rules and CALL

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Patricia Manning
Patricia Manning
Affiliation:
The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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Abstract

Manning argued that exploratory teaching is well suited to learning with computers, as it increases the learners' autonomy and motivation. The main thrust of this paper is to evaluate the merits of exploratory teaching of grammatical rules as opposed to the more traditional explicit or implicit approaches. It provides a brief description of tests carried out on a group of learners of French in the UK, working on gender agreement rules, using a specifically designed CALL program and presents and analyses the results of the testing, which favour the Exploratory approach.

Type
Research Article
Information
ReCALL , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , May 1996 , pp. 24 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1996

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