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The purpose of the present study is to investigate which instruction is effective in helping Korean EFL learners acquire English relative clause constructions, the word order of which they have difficulty in acquiring because English is a head initial language, but Korean is a head final language. Input enhancement alone was not effective in the acquisition of the relative clause constructions. When input enhancement was combined with explicit explanation based on word order, which has grammatical function in English, an effectiveness in both the comprehension and literal production of the target constructions was demonstrated. Production practice showed an effectiveness in not only the literal production but oral production of the constructions. The learners who received focus-on-form instruction in English relative clause constructions which combines input enhancement, explicit explanation based on word order and production practice showed statistically significant improvement in the ability to comprehend them and to produce them literally and orally. On the basis of the results, an effective method of teaching them was suggested. This includes improvisation, recognition, rehearsal, exploration and consolidation.