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| 5.3. Limitations of the Study
However, research limitations were certainly inevitable. The present study confined itself to only ten prepositions above, among, at, behind, beside, between, in, in front of, on, and under. An extended application will probably bring about more implications for successive studies. Also, the aim of the study was to measure its effects on the participants’ knowledge, rather than language competence. This was reflected by the constructs of the testing instruments. Current pedagogical applications mostly suggest teachers of English as a foreign language to guide students to language use. Although the class procedure included speaking and writing tasks in each session, it was applied mainly to foster the participants’ explicit knowledge as the focus of the study. Recent studies have showed the relationship between learners’ explicit knowledge and implicit knowledge in English language learning (Pawlak, 2006). Measures of the participants’ implicit knowledge of the target items in speaking and writing would have provided implications for later research in English language teaching in general and applying cognitive linguistics to English language teaching in particular. Another limitation of this doctoral thesis might come from the fact that students might have remembered the items used in the pretest and referred to them in the posttest despite the fact that the likeliness of this happening was low. Also, as presented in the objectives and 21 scope of the study, the study aimed to explore the two groups’ score improvements in the tests for the spatial and metaphorical meanings of the prepositions; therefore, it did not aim to analyse effects of the treatments on the participants’ improvements in each preposition. The final limitation might be about the researcher’s role as the trainer. The teachers might have been unintentionally attracted to one type of treatment, which in turn transferred into their teaching performances. However, this likeliness was low because the video clips showed there was no significant difference in their teaching styles. The observations, and data collection and analysis were double-checked by the researcher assistants. tải về 2.02 Mb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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