(cited
by Beretta &Davies 1985 as cited in Sysoyev1999) that experimental group, which
received meaning based instruction, did well on the meaning based test, but they
showed low result on the discrete-point test. On the other hand the control group
which had received structural instructions, performed better on grammar structure
tasks, rather than on the global and the integrative tests. The results were clear that
the students’ performance was better on the tasks they were trained for