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Using collaborative language production tasks to promote students’ language awareness1
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This paper presents data of 13 and 14 year old intermediate and advanced learners of French working collaboratively to complete a text reconstruction task. The task was designed to focus the students’ attention and discussion on the form of the message they were constructing. It was hypothesised that this kind of opportunity to produce language would promote their language learning by (1) making them aware of gaps in their existing knowledge which they would subsequently seek to fill; (2) raising their awareness of the links between the form, function and meaning of words as they worked to construct their intended message; and (3) obtaining feedback that they would receive from their peers and their teacher as they completed the task. The results support the hypothesis and also provide rich insights for teachers, researchers and curriculum planners into the language learning process in a collaborative setting; the students’ understandings of how language ‘works'; and the effects of certain grouping patterns on the ensuing student talk.
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“With regard to engagement with language specifically, Storch (2008) identified instances in which peers talk about language use or provide correction. These language-related episodes (LREs) (Kowal & Swain, 1994) have been adopted as the primary unit of analysis for engagement in much of more recent work (e.g., Baralt et al., 2016; Dobao, 2016; García Mayo & Azkarai, 2016; Svalberg, 2012).”
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- Authors
- Kowal, M., & Swain, M.
- Venue
- Language Awareness
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1994-01
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 73-93
- ISSN
- 0965-8416 (ISSN-L)
- 1747-7565
- OpenAlex
- W2083536757
- Cited by
- 332
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 23.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Language Awareness (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › French Language Learning Methods
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Keywords
- French as a foreign language, high school students, peer feedback, teacher feedback, student discourse, second language writing
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