Winitz: Grammaticality judgement....

This article discussed a study that was done that researched the differences between implicit and explicit grammar instruction and the outcomes of each in regards to the students' abilities to judge the grammaticality of sentences. Their findings show that the group who received 6 weeks of implicit instruction scored higher on the grammaticality judgement test, however there wasn't a substancial difference between the groups on the regular end of course exam. I thought their comment about the effect implicit instruction had on students' motivation to learn a FL was interesting, and makes sense to me. I think that I would feel as though I was learning a lot more of the language if the teacher was constantly speaking in the target language, rather than just learning grammar rules and then doing practice exercise, which would motivate me to want to learn more.