Problem solving brought to task  

Oleh:

Sheen, Ronald

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: RELC Journal (sebagian Full Text) vol. 23 no. 2 (Dec. 1992), page 1-17.
Fulltext: RELC Journal-1992-Sheen-44-59.pdf (758.84KB)

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The field of second and foreign language teaching has now matured to the point where a shift in approach or methodology no longer automatically entails the rejection of all that went before. The field still, however, manifests a marked tendency to propose and accept the implementation of new approaches without the necessary support of trialling and empirical evidence. A shift presently being mooted is related to consciousness raising. Although its advocates, Rutherford & Sharwood Smith (1988), have advised caution before the implementation of the principles thereof, Ellis (1991) has proposed that consciousness raising in the form of problem- solving should be used in the Japanese school system without offering any empirical support for the efficacy thereof. The study reported herein attempts to evaluate the efficacy of problem-solving as compared to an orthodox deductive approach. The results indicate that although both approaches enable the students to understand the grammatical rules, the time-consuming problem-solving procedure results in little time being available for practice and a consequent lack in oral proficiency. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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