Meaningful Drills and Contextualized Reading Passages to Understand Relative Clauses
Abbas Eltahir Mustafa,
Abdelbadie Ahmed Fadellah
Abstract:The current study tries to test the assumption that the use of meaningful drills and contextualized reading comprehension passages lead to better understanding of relative clauses. The study is based on the idea that meaning and contexts are necessary for learning to take place. It also aims to empirically test the effect of meaningful drills proposed by Christina Paulston on the acquisition of relative clauses. A sample of (30) first year undergraduate students of English took part in this study. The particip… Show more
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