Are two heads better than one? Pair work and grammatical accuracy  

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Storch, N.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: SYSTEM: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 27 no. 3 (Sep. 1999), page 363-374.
Topik: Pair work; Grammar tasks; Metatalk
Fulltext: Storch_N.pdf (125.42KB)

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Abstract The use of pair work has been promoted in both ®rst (L1) and second (L2) language classrooms. In the L2 classroom, a number of studies have shown that learners working in pairs have more opportunities to communicate in the target language than in teacher-fronted classrooms. However, this research has also shown that the tasks generally used in such studies (eg. jigsaw) do not engage students in negotiations over grammar. In the language class where the development of both ¯uency and accuracy are important goals, what is needed is research on grammar-focused communication tasks investigating the e?ects of student negotiations over grammatical choices on the accuracy of production. The small-scale study reported here required tertiary ESL learners of intermediate to advanced L2 proficiency to complete three di?erent types of grammar-focused exercises commonly used in the language classroom: a cloze exercise, a text reconstruction and a short composition. Each exercise type had two isomorphic versions, one to be completed individually and the other to be completed in pairs. A comparison of exercises completed individually with those completed in pairs suggested that collaboration had a positive e?ect on overall grammatical accuracy, but tended to vary with specific grammatical items.

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