Monday, November 11, 2013

WEEK 15 Interaction Hypothesis _ Group B_Chelsea, Eunjoo and Emily

Hi Group B

Please refer to the below question and responds

Questions)
1. What is the Long's 3 steps? Please read the dialogue and find 3 steps

S : I have never heard of future tense, Future tense in your writing is not clear to me.          
      What is "future tense"?
T : In past, European is the richest in the world, I think, china will be the richest in
     the future
S : China will be the richest?
T : Yes, China will be the richest, in this sentence, future tense is used.
S : OK, Now I understand what you mean

2. According to Pica's study, which group is more successful on the task?
   and Why do you think?

3. What is clearest evidence that is in support of Long's step 3 in Mackey's 
    study?

Discussion Topic)
-Now we know taking part in interaction can facilitate second language development 
 But in some way, It could be too one-side preoccupied with functional aspects of  second language interaction. How we strike a balance between grammatical development  and second language interaction

2 comments:

  1. Long’s ‘Interaction Hypothesis’

    Long emphasizes the role of interaction in second language interaction which is also an extension of Krashen’s original Input hypothesis. He says in order to solve ongoing communication difficulties, the native-speaker-non-native speaker pairs were much more likely to make use of conversational tactics. They also make collaborative efforts to maximize comprehension, and negotiate their way through trouble spot to make the task more relevant to the current state of learner development.

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  2. Questions)
    1. What is the Long's 3 steps? Please read the dialogue and find 3 steps

    S : I have never heard of future tense, Future tense in your writing is not clear to me.
    What is "future tense"?
    T : In past, European is the richest in the world, I think, china will be the richest in
    the future
    S : China will be the richest?
    T : Yes, China will be the richest, in this sentence, future tense is used.
    S : OK, Now I understand what you mean

    --> There are Confirmation checks, Clarification requests, and Comprehension checks. In this dialogue, there is clarification request and a bit of Comprehension check.

    2. According to Pica's study, which group is more successful on the task?
    and Why do you think?
    -->Pica conducted the establishment a link between interational modifications and increased comprehension.
    The second group seems to be more successful because they can interact each other and encouraged to ask for clarification from the person reading the script. There can be great increase of repetitions of content words.

    3. What is clearest evidence that is in support of Long's step 3 in Mackey's
    study?
    --> Taking part in interaction can faciliate second language development.

    As a applier,
    I believe that interactional structure of conversation will be important to the current class however we have many difficulties to apply the current class like we have too many students over 30 and time limits which will be only 50 Min. It might be good to apply small group of class.
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