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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