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"Information Gap" Tasks: Do They Facilitate Second Language Acquisition?

Doughty, Catherine, Pica, Teresa·1986·TESOL Quarterly
DOI 10.2307/3586546
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This article reports the findings of the latest of a series of studies conducted to determine the effects of task type and participation pattern on language classroom interaction. The results of this study are compared to those of an earlier investigation (Pica & Doughty, 1985a) in regard to optional and required information exchange tasks across teacher-directed, small-group, and dyad interactional patterns. The evidence suggests that a task with a requirement for information exchange is crucial to the generation of conversational modification of classroom interaction. This finding is significant in light of current theory, which argues that conversational modification occurring during interaction is instrumental in second language acquisition. Furthermore, the finding that group and dyad interaction patterns produced more modification than did the teacher-fronted situation suggests that participation pattern as well as task type have an effect on the conversational modification of interaction.

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Authors
Doughty, C., & Pica, T.
Affiliations
University of Pennsylvania (US)
ORCID
Doughty, Catherine
Venue
TESOL Quarterly
Publisher
JSTOR
Published
1986-06
Volume
20
Issue
2
Pages
305
ISSN
0039-8322 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.2307/3586546
OpenAlex
W2031796137
Cited by
498
References
12
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 53 · 2020: 31 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 22 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 18 · 2012: 17
FWCI
41.01
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
TESOL Quarterly (publishedVersion)
Funders
University of Pennsylvania
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics and Language Analysis
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
Keywords
information-gap tasks, second language acquisition, classroom interaction, task type, participation patterns, small group interaction, dyadic interaction

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