Examining the Interface between Metalinguistic Task Performance and Oral Production in a Second Language  

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White, Joanna ; RANTA, Leila

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Awareness (Full Text) vol. 11 no. 4 (2002), page 259-290.
Fulltext: 11.4.259-290.pdf (379.37KB)

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Different theories of SLA offer conflicting views of the relationship between metalinguistic task performance and oral production. We examined this relationship with respect to the possessive determiners ‘his/her’in English. Learners’ oral production was elicited using a picture description task and described according to developmental stages;a parallelframeworkwas developedtoclassifylearners’performanceon a metalinguistic task. Two classes of French-speaking children in an intensive ESL programme in Quebec participated in the study. Both received instruction which can be characterised as communication-oriented. In addition, the Rule class was given metalinguisticinformation about the possessive determineragreementrule andparticipatedin a series of cooperative learning activitieswhich provided practicein articulating and applying the rule. The Comparison class received no special treatment with respect to possessive determiners. We found that there was considerable correspondence between oral and metalinguistic task performance for the Comparison class. In contrast, the instructional intervention appeared to alter the relationship between performanceon the two tasks in the Rule class. These findings are considered from the perspectiveof five hypothetical positions posited to existbetweenoral production and metalinguistic task performance.

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