This exploratory study examines the potential learning opportunities of interactions in the naturalistic setting of a German conversation group. Eleven intermediate L2 German learners participated in weekly conversation groups, which were recorded and then transcribed. In addition, information regarding learners’ perceptions, confidence, and willingness to communicate was obtained by means of self-report surveys and interviews. A discourse analytic approach indicated that learners’ styles were more passive or active depending on their ability to identify and use, consciously or unconsciously, German conversational style in the group interactions. These findings suggest that interaction in L2 conversation groups can play an important role in providing learners with opportunities to acquire native-like conversational styles and structures in an environment representative of authentic, real world conversational contexts.
2016. Learners Regulating Linguistic and Cognitive Behavior. In Peer Interactions in New Content and Language Integrated Settings [Educational Linguistics, 24], ► pp. 167 ff.
D’Amico, Melanie Lynn
2015. Complexity of Interaction in a Second Language Conversation Group: An Exploratory Study. Open Journal of Modern Linguistics 05:04 ► pp. 348 ff.
Loewen, Shawn & Masatoshi Sato
2018. Interaction and instructed second language acquisition. Language Teaching 51:3 ► pp. 285 ff.
Mackey, Alison
2020. Interaction, Feedback and Task Research in Second Language Learning,
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 12 june 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers.
Any errors therein should be reported to them.