Enhancing Learners’ Communication Skills through Svnchronous Electronic Iiteraction and Task-Based Instruction  

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Lee, Lina

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Foreign Language Annals (Full Text; di PROQUEST 2004 - terbaru) vol. 35 no. 1 (2002), page 16-24.
Fulltext: 35_01_Lee.pdf (862.84KB)

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Online interactive exchange offers the learner many opportunities to use the target language to negotiate both meaning and form in a social context that is crucial for second language acquisition. This paper discusses a pilot study using synchronous electronic chats combined with task-based instruction (TBI) to enhance learners’ communication skills. TBIfocuses on the two-way exchange of information on real-life topics. This pilot study shows that computer-mediated communication using less structure-controlled but more open-ended exchange had a sign$- cant impact on the process of language learning. Students benefited from online task-based activities because they had to access diferent finctional skills to construct and negotiate meaning collaboratively. However: foreign language educators need to be aware that the quick cyberspace interactions impeded students from producing correct and coherent discourse, especially during learner-learner interaction. One corrective technique is to make students, reexamine and revise their exchanges with guided instruction.

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