This study aims to develop two different kinds of input enhancement activities for English
passive structure and investigate its effects on the learning of English passive and its use.
A group of Korean high school students, who were pretested on the English passive, were
placed in two experimental groups and a control group and were divided into upper and low
levels respectively. The control group was given only input enhanced materials whereas two
experimental groups took part in additional activities: explicit rule explanation was presented
to the experimental group 1 and for the experimental group 2, corrective feedbacks were given.
The major findings are as follows: First, the result showed that the experimental group 1
achieved significantly better results than the other groups. The result considering the learners
level was quite controversial. For the upper level students, explicit rule explanation group did
better but for the low level students, corrective feedback was proved to be more effective.
Second, results considering the relative difficulties of passive structures, while there were no
significant differences between groups in case of easy structures. in case of difficult structures, the
explicit rule explanation group achieved significantly better result than other groups in the posttest.
Third, The most frequently produced errors were the misuse of passive participle and the
overuse of by-phrase in their free writing tasks.
In conclusion, we could find that the use of input enhancement activities in the learning of
English passive has positive effects on the students\' learning passive structure and its use.
Explicit rule explanation seemed to be the most effective way of teaching passives but we
should notice that giving corrective feedback was more effective for low level learners though
it was not revealed as statistically significant. Finally, in order to get the most effective
achievement in teaching grammar, we must take learner levels as well as the ranges of
difficulty of target structure into account.