摘要：The current research study was conducted to examine the impacts of focused andunfocused audio-appended reading tasks on female EFL learners’ acquisition of arule-bound structure (passive voice) and a non-rule-bound structure (prepositions).The participants of this study involved ninety intermediate female English learners.They were assigned into four experimental and two control groups on the basis ofthe instruction they were exposed to. The learners were instructed for ten sessionsvia focused and unfocused reading tasks. In the last session, the posttest of thestudy which included a rendering task was administered among the learners tomeasure their grammatical development. The results of the current researchrevealed significant differences between the performances of focused andunfocused groups in terms of the production element of accuracy in both ruleboundand non-rule-bound structures. The results of the current research showedthat the learners who were exposed to focused audio-appended reading tasksoutperformed the learners who were instructed by means of unfocused audioappendedreading tasks. The results of the current study can be helpful forresearchers in the field of second language acquisition (SLA), language teachers,and syllabus and task designers.
关键词：accuracy; focus on form; focused/unfocused audio-appended reading tasks;rendering task; task-based language teaching
