Publications

Publication details [#53509]

Smith, Bryan and Shannon Sauro. 2010. Investigating L2 Performance in Text Chat. Applied Linguistics 31 (4) : 554–577.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

internet | L2-acquisition | language proficiency | task-dependency of processing | text analysis

Language as a subject

German

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This study shows that university learners of (German as) a second language (L2) do deploy the accrued online (i.e. moment-by-moment) planning time provided by chat to initiate careful L2 output production and monitoring.