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Anthony Schmidt summarizes a 2010 meta-analysis by Nin Spada and Yasuyo Tomita of studies investigating the efficacy of implicit and explicit grammar instruction. His summary: “The results indicated that explicit instruction was more effective for both simple and complex language features. In addition, explicit instruction led to both greater explicit and implicit knowledge. Finally, explicit instruction was also more effective in the long-term (as measured by delayed post tests). One result that surprised the authors: the largest effect size in this study was of explicit instruction of complex language features on implicit knowledge (measured by ‘free constructed response’ tasks). Implicit instruction only showed a medium effect size (some effectiveness) for simple language features on free tasks.”

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