This article considers effects of construction frequency, form, function, and prototypicality on second language acquisition (SLA). It investigates these relationships by focusing on …
This study analyzes the user chat logs and other artifacts of a virtual world, Quest Atlantis (QA), and proposes the concept of Negotiation for Action (NfA) to explain how interaction …
H Nassaji - Language learning, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The present study investigated the effects of two categories of interactional feedback— recasts and elicitations—on learning linguistic forms that arose incidentally in dyadic …
DE Ewert - Journal of Second language writing, 2009 - Elsevier
Although the role of social interaction through conversational activities is well established in the L2 writing classroom in relation to idea development, understanding rhetorical modes …
This paper specifically focuses on the findings of research on interaction in foreign language contexts in which time and L2 input are both limited. Although theoretical work on the …
L Ortega - Multiple perspectives on interaction, 2009 - taylorfrancis.com
The foundations of the interaction approach were laid during the early 1980s and rapidly burgeoned into an increasingly coherent research program led by Susan Gass along with …
R Oliver - Multiple perspectives on interaction, 2009 - taylorfrancis.com
Today there is a considerable body of evidence demonstrating the importance of interaction in the process of second language acquisition (see Mackey & Goo, 2007; Keck, Iberri-Shea …
This study investigated the effects of synchronous and asynchronous CMC on the development of linguistic features of learners' speech in Japanese. Using learners from …
J Goldsmith - Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language …, 2009 - revistes.uab.cat
The topic of pacing at the level of the individual class hour has received relatively little coverage in research literature. In order to provide a research-based take on the issue, the …