awej 5 no.4 full issue 2014

AWEJ Volume.5 Number.4, 2014The Effects of Form-Focused Instruction on the Learners‟ AccuracyZaheerDridTable 3. Demonstrates the Experimental Study Design:Groups Treatment Tasks types / tools Time triangulation / 3Test stagesExperimentalgroup 1Experimentalgroup 2Implicit FFIExplicit FFIT 1: Constrainedconstructed responses /gap fill taskT 2: Free constructedresponse/ free writing1.Pre-test2.Post-test(soon aftertreatment session)3. Delayed Post- test(after a period of 3months)Two tools were purposely administered by the researcher to compare the ESOL learners‟ writtenproduction between receptive and productive tests. It was seen as important for the consistencyof results to measure the effects of FFIs or the familiarised effect of the aimed grammarstructure, hence the productive test enabled the detection of other grammar components althoughthe complexity of sentences was not under consideration as the groups under study are at E2/E3intermediate level. The quantitative data revealed interesting results (see table 4) whichdemonstrate the descriptive statistical analysis of the findings.The study aims to measure the effect of FFI on the ESOL learner‟s written production. The gainscores of each group will be analysed between each test (for example: pre- test by post- test, posttest by delayed post- test and so forth with the help of t-test; This "t" value tells how far awayfrom 0, in terms of the number of standard errors, the observed difference between the twosample means and expansively evaluated by Sig. (2-tailed) indicated the level of significance ofthe t-value.The Table 4 Illustrates means of Tool 1 and 2; group 1and 2 at all three stages of test.Arab World English JournalISSN: 2229-9327www.awej.org463