February 12, 2013

Research Groups: Psycholinguistics (Feb. 15/2013)

Courtesy of Daphna Heller

Speaker: Yujeong Choi's presents this Friday.

Title: "Repair negotiation by English L2 learners"

Place: Sid Smith 560A

Time: Friday, February 15, 10:15am

Abstract:

This study examines English second language (L2) learners’ repair negotiation in task-based interaction and the effectiveness of repair negotiation on the linguistic knowledge of non-native speakers (NNSs) through the framework of Long’s (1996) Interaction Hypothesis. Three research questions were proposed: (1) How do different types of tasks relate to NNS repair organization? (2) Does repair negotiation lead to development of linguistic targets? (3) Does type of task affect development of morpho-syntactic features? The results of two experiments with L2 speakers of English indicate that type of task does affect repair negotiation; self-initiated repair was elicited most frequently in decision-making tasks whereas other-initiated repair was elicited most frequently in one-way information gap tasks. In addition, the results suggest that repair negotiation and task type affect linguistic targets differently. Past tense is learned more effectively than relative clause through interactive tasks between NNSs. Type of task also differently influenced the learning of the two linguistic targets; one-way information gap tasks were more effective for learners in the short term than were decision-making tasks. Through the analysis of repair negotiation between NNSs, this study provides support for the Interaction Hypothesis and has implications for task-based instruction in the classroom.

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