The Development of Teaching Prepositions by a Lesson Based on Input Enhancement and Consciousness-raising
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14456/edupsru.2019.4Keywords:
input enhancement, consciousness-raising, prepositionAbstract
The current study attempted to develop a lesson on prepositions of date and time with limitation to in, on, and at by means of input enhancement and consciousness-raising. The subject of the study was 52 Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University students enrolling in GELN102 English for Learning in academic year 2014. In the process, the students participated in three fifty-minute sessions, one week each, in regular English classes. They were assigned to do a pretest and a posttest related to prepositions of date and time before and after reading five passages with embedded target grammatical features in the form of boldfaced, underlined, and over-sized prepositions together with their phrases. The students also received consciousness-raising in the form of mentioning to the presence of the prepositions in the reading passages. The students were to do a questionnaire concerning the teaching techniques used in the study, input enhancement and consciousness-raising, as well. The results revealed that the students showed significant improvement after undergoing the experiment, and they were satisfied with the teaching techniques.
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