Q1) What are the three steps Long proposed for a more systematic approach to linking features of environmental language and learners' second language development?
Q2)What are the conversation tactics native speaker-non-native speaker pairs use?
Q3)What did Braidi criticize about earlier interactionalist research?
Discussion)
What is the relationship between interaction and acquisition?
1) Step 1 : Show that linguistic/conversational adjustments promote and comprehension of input / Step 2 : Show that comprehensible input promotes and acquisition. / Step 3 : Deduce that linguistic/conversational adjustments promote and acquisition.
ReplyDelete2) The conversation tactics are repetitions, confirmation checks, comprehension checks or clarification requests.
3) He criticized the earlier interactionist research as being too one-sidedly preoccupied with functional aspects of second language interaction and of neglecting linguistic theory.
Comprehension Questions
ReplyDelete1.
Step 1 : Show that (a) linguistic/conversational adjustments promote
(b) comprehension of input
Step 2 : Show that (b) comprehensible input promotes (c) acquisition.
Step 3 : Deduce that (a) linguistic/conversational adjustments promote
(c) acquisition.
2.
They are repetitions, confirmation checks, comprehension checks or clarification requests.
3.
He criticized that the earlier interactionist research as being too one-sidedly preoccupied with functional aspects of second language interaction and of neglecting linguistic theory.
Discussion Question
1. Students get acquisition of language through interaction which takes a role of comprehensible input.
As an applier...
Teacher can use various interactions in class by giving students a lot of comprehensible input, pushing them to produce output, negotiating meaning, providing opportunities to express themselves out, and encouraging them to notice the gap between what they want to say and what they can say.