This study investigated the extent to which explicit and implicit instruction improve L1-Arabic speakers’ articulation of English words whose cognates were acquired earlier in their L2 French. Sixty-eight secondary school students, explicit (n=35) and implicit (n=33), participated in a programme incorporating focus-on-pronunciation activities, comprising three 45-minute sessions. Their learning motivation was first rated using an adapted version of Attitude/Motivation Test Battery (AMTB). Their pronunciation improvement was assessed through an oral-reading task. Ten new words were included in the post-test to see if they would generalize the instructed knowledge analogically. Results indicated that both explicit and implicit instruction had a positive impact on the students’ pronunciation advancement. However, the explicit group outperformed the implicit group with both the targeted and untaught words. There was insignificant interaction effect between instructional method and students’ motivation level, with higher motivation uniformly enhancing the effect of instruction. Nevertheless, motivation played a more crucial role in the learnt knowledge transferability when instruction was of implicit.

This study aims to examine the effectiveness of genre-based in-class L2 writing instruction on Korean middle school students' writing ability and their perception change toward L2 writi ng. The research was conducted with 595 middle school students in the third grade from two co-ed schools in Gwangju Metropolitan City, Korea. Five sessions of writing instruction using a dialY genre over five weeks were provided to an experimental group, while no explicit writing instruction was provided to a control group. The experimental group was exposed to 13 writing sample texts, analyzed and identified the characteri stics of the target genre, and then constructed a diaty text in collaboration with their peers. Following the treatment, both groups were required to write a diaty ently in 40 minutes atld the students' writings were rated on content, organization, and language use. The results showed that only the experimental group, provided with explicit genre-based L2 writing instl·uction, showed statistically significant improvement in each categOlY in the post-test. In addition, a set of questionnaires and interview data revealed that the participants' attitudes and perceptions toward L2 writing were positively affected.

본 연구는 요약 교육(Summarizing instruction) 및 연습(Practices)이 초급 수준의 L2 성인 학습자들의 읽기 이해와 쓰기에서의 어휘 사용에 어떠한 영향을 주는지를 연구하였다. 이를 위해 L2 학습에서 요약하기의 중요성 및 쓰기에서의 어휘 사용에 관한 이론을 바탕으로 본 연구의 의미를 살펴보았다. 연구 결과 연구에 참가한 학습자들은 요약 교육과 연습 이후 읽기이해 점수에서 의미 있는 향상을 보여주었고, 어휘쓰기에 있어서도 전체적으로 같은 단어의 반복이나 기초적인 단어(the 1st 1000) 보다는 다양하고 수준 높은, 즉, the 2nd 1000 list, 아카데믹한 단어(AWL), 및 그 이상 수준의 단어(NLW) 사용을 보여주고 있었다. 이러한 요약 교육 및 연습이 읽기 이해에 주는 긍정적 효과는 주제가 다른 읽기자료(reading source texts with different topics)를 바탕으로 한 상향식(bottom-up) 읽기 및 쓰기 유발(writing output-promoting)의 통합적인 요약단계에 있다고 보여 진다. 즉, 주어진 읽기자료를 요약하기 위해서 학습자들은 주요 단어, 구, 혹은 문장 수준의 이해를 하고, 이를 다시 본래의 텍스트보다 짧게 요약하기 위해 문장통합(sentence combination), 바꾸어 쓰기(paraphrasing), 통사적 변형(syntactic transformation), 그리고 만들어 내기(invention) 등의 요약 과정들(summarizing processes)에서 사전 사용 및 교사의 모델링과 피드백을 통하여 다양한 단어표현에 노출되고 경험하여 어휘 지식을 늘릴 수 있었고, 이후 쓰기에서의 어휘 사용에 도움을 준 것으로 보여 진다.