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Effects of Output Tasks on Students’ Perceptions Concerning Grammar Learning

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An experiment was conducted in this article to apply the Output Hypothesis in college English grammar classes, the aim of which was to test its effects on students’ perceptions concerning grammar learning. The statistical analysis on the results of the questionnaire showed that students’ preferred doing output tasks which were related with grammar learning. And students became more confident and interested in learning English grammar.

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Qin, J., Liu, G. (2012). Effects of Output Tasks on Students’ Perceptions Concerning Grammar Learning. In: Sambath, S., Zhu, E. (eds) Frontiers in Computer Education. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 133. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27552-4_25

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