Collaborative Dialogue between Thai EFL Learners during Self-Access Computer Activities

Autor/inn/en	McDonough, Kim; Sunitham, Wichian
Titel	Collaborative Dialogue between Thai EFL Learners during Self-Access Computer Activities
Quelle	In: TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 43 (2009) 2, S.231-254 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0039-8322
Schlagwörter	Grammar; Foreign Countries; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Independent Study; Computer Assisted Instruction; Vocabulary; Second Language Instruction; Language Tests; Undergraduate Students; Oral Language; Questionnaires; Thailand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Grammatik; Ausland; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Selbststudium; Computer based training; Computerunterstützter Unterricht; Wortschatz; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Language test; Sprachtest; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Fragebogen
Abstract	Previous studies have shown that second language (L2) learners use language to reflect on language form when they carry out collaborative classroom-based activities, and that they generally remember the language forms that they had discussed. The current study similarly investigated whether learners reflect on and remember language forms, but focused on learners' interaction during self-access computer activities. The language-related episodes (LREs) that occurred when Thai learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) (n = 48) carried out computer activities in a self-access environment were examined, and tailor-made tests that targeted the linguistic information discussed in those LREs were administered. The results indicated that the learners' LREs involved lexical items more often than grammatical forms, and that they successfully resolved the majority of their LREs while they were collaborating. However, their test performance indicated that they only remembered less than half of the lexical items and one-third of the grammatical forms that they had discussed. Suggestions are offered for teachers and administers interested in integrating collaborative self-access computer activities into English L2 courses. (Contains 3 tables and 4 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10