Interactional opportunities for language learning : a comparative study of classroom-based and authentic hotel and travel service encounters
Interactional opportunities for language learning : a comparative study of classroom-based and authentic hotel and travel service encounters
The `Interactionist Approach' towards Second Language Acquisition has, over the past decade, inspired numerous empirical studies. These have resulted in a variety of differing claims concerning the importance of interaction, negotiation work and comprehensible input.
This thesis tracks the route of interest in this approach and investigates these claims and their underlying assumptions. It is argued that many of the claims remain unsubstantiated as the studies have lacked a principled approach towards interaction and research methodology. It is proposed that in order to ensure more reliable claims and to construct an increasingly sound descriptive model of Language Acquisition, we need to view interaction in a broader sense than has so far been the case. To this end, the `Synthesized Model of Analysis' is developed, and applied, to examine one particular type of interaction; the service encounter.
This empirical study consists of two phases in which a set of propositions relating task type, authenticity and participatory patterns to quality and quantity of language learning opportunities, is explored and refined. Analysis of data from classroom-based role-plays and authentic Hotel and Travel service encounters is carried out at two levels; the `Transactional' and `Discoursal', and comparisons made concerning the ways in which different combinations of variables provide for specific types of language learning opportunities. These result in a number of pedagogical implications relating to task choice and task design. (DX174,834)
University of Southampton
Chappell, Denise Mary Ann
1993
Chappell, Denise Mary Ann
Chappell, Denise Mary Ann
(1993)
Interactional opportunities for language learning : a comparative study of classroom-based and authentic hotel and travel service encounters.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
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The `Interactionist Approach' towards Second Language Acquisition has, over the past decade, inspired numerous empirical studies. These have resulted in a variety of differing claims concerning the importance of interaction, negotiation work and comprehensible input.
This thesis tracks the route of interest in this approach and investigates these claims and their underlying assumptions. It is argued that many of the claims remain unsubstantiated as the studies have lacked a principled approach towards interaction and research methodology. It is proposed that in order to ensure more reliable claims and to construct an increasingly sound descriptive model of Language Acquisition, we need to view interaction in a broader sense than has so far been the case. To this end, the `Synthesized Model of Analysis' is developed, and applied, to examine one particular type of interaction; the service encounter.
This empirical study consists of two phases in which a set of propositions relating task type, authenticity and participatory patterns to quality and quantity of language learning opportunities, is explored and refined. Analysis of data from classroom-based role-plays and authentic Hotel and Travel service encounters is carried out at two levels; the `Transactional' and `Discoursal', and comparisons made concerning the ways in which different combinations of variables provide for specific types of language learning opportunities. These result in a number of pedagogical implications relating to task choice and task design. (DX174,834)
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Published date: 1993
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Denise Mary Ann Chappell
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