Affiliation:
1. University of Sri Jayewardenepura
2. University of Groningen
Abstract
Abstract
The current paper explores whether a Dynamic Usage Based (DUB) approach – which takes authentic meaningful
language use with repetition and scaffolding for comprehension as its basis – can also be implemented in a CALL environment. The
effectiveness of the DUB-CALL program was tested in a semester-long experiment, comparing it with a teacher-fronted DUB program
(using the same materials as the CALL program) and a traditional CLT program; 228 university undergraduates in Sri Lanka
participated. Language gains were assessed in a pre-post design with an objective General English Proficiency (GEP) test and a
writing task. The results show that the students in the DUB-CALL condition performed significantly better on the GEP test than the
students in the two teacher-fronted classes. The results of the writing tests show that all groups improved significantly, but
here there were no differences among groups.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
Cited by
2 articles.
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