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Davidson, Frederick G. Fitzpatrick, Shawn 2011-01-14T22:50:34Z 2011-01-14T22:50:34Z 2011-01-14T22:50:34Z 2010-12 This study investigates the feasibility of using meaning-focused tasks to evaluate the degree to which ESL / EFL learners are able to use counterfactual second conditionals and related grammatical structures to perform certain illocutionary acts. To this end the researcher attempted to create tasks for which the production of the target grammatical structures would be “natural” (Loschcky & Bley-Vroman, 1993, p. 132). For the purpose of this study, “task naturalness” was defined as successful elicitation from a “significant majority” of native speakers. Using a process of “iterative, consensusbased, specification-driven testing” (Davidson & Lynch, 2002, p. 7), two types of tasks were developed: 1) Spoken dyadic role-plays designed to elicit expressions of willingness (e.g., “I’d love to help, but…”) and 2) Written logic puzzles designed to elicit proof-by-contradiction (e.g., “If the light were off, Sherlock would know the answer.”). In general, both task types were successful at eliciting either counterfactual second conditionals or related grammatical structures. This study represents the first step in a long term project to develop instructional materials to teach counterfactual second conditionals and related structures. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2010-11-08T15:58:33Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Fitzpatrick_Shawn.doc: 1732096 bytes, checksum: 73499d0f22562992f29d3fb0382cd9cd (MD5) Fitzpatrick_Shawn.pdf: 1200553 bytes, checksum: 9904d4905c8f029237ecd344a094f96f (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-01-14T22:50:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 Fitzpatrick_Shawn.pdf: 1203893 bytes, checksum: 233141e275d29fd79d5cd3372057ac2f (MD5) license.txt: 4067 bytes, checksum: 233b596d84e0f3a9dc5f22d3ecb6c8ba (MD5) Fitzpatrick_Shawn.doc: 1732096 bytes, checksum: 73499d0f22562992f29d3fb0382cd9cd (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18429 en Copyright 2010 Shawn Fitzpatrick counterfactual conditional elicit elicitation illocutionary act proof-by-contradiction refusal second conditional task natural task naturalness task-based learning task-based testing Using task-based elicitation to measure effectiveness of counterfactual conditional instruction Linguistics 1864 Teaching of English Sec Lang 0299 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.A. MA:Tch of Eng as Sec Lang-UIUC 10KS0299MA