Effects of Elective Attention and Noticing the Gap in CFL Acquisition of the Chinese Manner Complement de

This experimental study explores effects of selective attention and "noticing the gap" principle in L2 acquisition of the Chinese manner complement de. After a pretest, 30 US CFL undergraduate students were selected to participate in this study and were randomly divided into two experimental groups and one control group. Participants in the experimental groups received two types of pedagogical treatments respectively for three weeks. One focused on directing learner' s attention to the target structure through output activities and the other through corrective feedback. By comparing the test scores and error distribution in pre-, post-, and follow-up tests, the study was able to obtain four significant results contributing to CFL acquisition and teaching. First, both the experimental groups (output and corrective feedback) outperformed the control group in production of the target structure in the post- and follow-up tests, indicating positive effects of pedagogical treatments in the acquisition of the Chines