The effects of visual input enhancement on the acquisition of the English passive form

الملخص EN

This study was set up to investigate the potentially facilitative effects of using visually/textually enhanced materials on the acquisition of the English passive form.

sixty students majoring in economics at larbi ben m’hidi university-oum el bouaghi, were randomly assigned to two groups: a control group and an experimental group.

the experimental group received five authentic texts in which the passive forms were textually enhanced, so to promote their salience.

the control group received the exact same texts, but with no typographical interventions on them.

the results indicate that using visually enhanced materials significantly helped the students learn the target form; this has been statistically proven through different statistical tests both descriptive and inferential.