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    Video-based interaction, negotiation for comprehensibility, and second language speech learning: a longitudinal study

    Saito, Kazuya and Akiyama, Y. (2017) Video-based interaction, negotiation for comprehensibility, and second language speech learning: a longitudinal study. Language Learning 67 (1), pp. 43-74. ISSN 0023-8333.

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    Abstract

    The current study examined the impact of video-based conversational interaction on the longitudinal development (one academic semester) of second language (L2) production by college-level Japanese English-as-a-foreign-language learners. Students in the experimental group engaged in weekly, dyadic conversation exchanges with native speakers in the US via telecommunication tools, wherein the native speaking interlocutors were trained to provide interactional feedback in the form of recasts when the non-native speakers’ utterances hindered successful understanding (i.e., negotiation for comprehensibility). The students in the comparison group received regular foreign language instruction without any interaction with native speakers. The video-coded data showed that the experimental students incidentally worked on improving all linguistic domains of language, thanks to their native speaking interlocutors’ interactional feedback (recasts, negotiation) during the treatment. The pre-/post-test data led to significant gains in their comprehensibility, fluency and lexicogrammar, but not in the accentedness and pronunciation dimensions of their spontaneous production abilities

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    Item Type: Article
    Additional Information: This is the peer reviewed version of the article, which has been published in final form at the link above. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
    School: School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy > Applied Linguistics and Communication (to 2020)
    Depositing User: Kazuya Saito
    Date Deposited: 07 Jul 2016 11:41
    Last Modified: 04 Jul 2022 12:21
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/14096

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