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TY - JOUR
T1 - Peer interaction in the foreign language classroom
T2 - what factors foster a focus on form?
AU - Philp, Jenefer
AU - Walter, Susan
AU - Basturkmen, Helen
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Peer interaction may facilitate acquisition through fostering learner production, feedback, and noticing of form. This study examined learners’ awareness of form during peer interaction in role-play and discussion tasks over a three-week period of a tertiary intermediate-level French class. The data for the study comprised transcribed recordings of pair and group work interaction in class and subsequent primed interviews with seven students. The study investigated the incidence, focus, and source of language-related episodes arising during the tasks and explored environmental and social considerations impacting on the students’ participation in the episodes. The results suggest that the students’ willingness to attend to difficulties with language form during peer task-based interaction is affected both by the task and by social considerations.
AB - Peer interaction may facilitate acquisition through fostering learner production, feedback, and noticing of form. This study examined learners’ awareness of form during peer interaction in role-play and discussion tasks over a three-week period of a tertiary intermediate-level French class. The data for the study comprised transcribed recordings of pair and group work interaction in class and subsequent primed interviews with seven students. The study investigated the incidence, focus, and source of language-related episodes arising during the tasks and explored environmental and social considerations impacting on the students’ participation in the episodes. The results suggest that the students’ willingness to attend to difficulties with language form during peer task-based interaction is affected both by the task and by social considerations.
KW - corrective feedback
KW - interaction
KW - focus on form
KW - foreign language pedagogy
KW - second language learning
KW - output
U2 - 10.1080/09658416.2010.516831
DO - 10.1080/09658416.2010.516831
M3 - Journal article
VL - 19
SP - 261
EP - 279
JO - Language Awareness
JF - Language Awareness
SN - 0965-8416
IS - 4
ER -