in the introductory stages of language learning, students are exposed to parative forms explicitly taught in their textbooks. as knoch (2004) mthis is accomplished by teaching the comparative form of the adjective generally directly followed by a than clause. this study aimed to compare between native and nonnative material developers with regard to the coverage of comparative forms. in doing s...

This study aimed to investigate the relative effectiveness of consciousness-raising tasks and structure-based production tasks in comparison with the traditional teaching in learning comparative and superlative forms, following a task-based approach to teaching English grammar. To this end, from among 82 female elementary-level high school students having taken a Solutions Placement Test (2010)...

This study aimed to investigate the relative effectiveness of consciousness-raising tasks and structure-based production tasks in comparison with the traditional teaching in learning comparative and superlative forms, following a task-based approach to teaching English grammar. To this end, from among 82 female elementary-level high school students having taken a Solutions Placement Test (2010)...