Chapter 5 Discourse aspects of interlanguage Communicative Competence
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Chapter 5 Discourse aspects of interlanguage
Communicative Competence (Canale and Swain, 1980) § Grammatical competence: competence words and rules What words do I use? How do I put them into phrases and sentences? § Sociolinguistic competence: competence appropriateness Which words and phrases fit this setting and this topic? How can I express a specific attitude (courtesy, authority, friendliness, respect) when I need to? How do I know what attitude another person is expressing? § Strategic competence: competence appropriate use of communication strategies How can I express my ideas if I don’t know the name of something or the right verb form to use? § Discourse competence (Canale, 1983) Cohesion/ Coherence ---How are words, phrases and sentences put together to create conversations, speeches, email messages,
Q: IL discourse errors: universal or language specific? (p. 44)
Q: Review(p. 44) • Behaviorist view of L 2 acquisition • Mentalist view of L 2 acquisition • Interactionist view of L 2 acquisition
Q: What is foreigner talk? (p. 45) Examples? (p. 46)
Simplification in Grammatical FT
Q: Long’s interaction hypothesis (p. 47)
Interactional modification: Negotiation of meaning (p. 47) NNS: The windows are crozed NS: The windows have what? ---negative evidence NNS: Closed? NS: Crossed? I’m not sure what you are saying here. NNS: Windows are closed. NS: Oh, the windows are closed, OK, sorry
The structure of meaning of negotiation S 1: What is your father’s job? S 2: My father now is retire. ---Trigger S 1: Retire? ---Indicator of misunderstanding S 2: Yes ---Response S 1: Oh, yes. ---Reaction to response
Modified output may arise in negotiation
Negotiation strategy Description Example Type
Example 1 (Mackey and Philp, 1998: 344) NNS: What they doing? NS: What are they doing? (---recast) NNS: Yeah NS: They’re signing a contract
Example 2 (Doughty and Varela, 1998: 124) Jose: I think that the worm will go under soil. Teacher: I think that the worm will go under soil? (---repetition) Jose: (no response) Teacher: I thought that the worm would go under the soil. (---recast) Jose: I thought that the worm would go under the soil.
Q: Scaffolding (p. 48)
Effective types of scaffolding (Bradley, 2004, p. 1). 1. Simplifying language 2. Ask students to complete sentences or fill in the blank rather than having them try to come up with the entire sentence 3. Use visuals 4. Use gestures
Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) (p. 48) An area of learning that occurs when a person is assisted by a teacher or peer with a skill set higher than that of the subject. The teacher then helps the student attain the skill the student is trying to master, in hopes that the teacher will no longer be needed for that task. (Vygotsky, 1978).
Q: Why is ‘comprehensible output’ important in SLA? (p. 49)
- Discourse aspects of interlanguage
- Stylistic continuum
- Psycholinguistics aspects of interlanguage
- Interlanguage and stylistic continuum
- Psycholinguistic aspects of interlanguage
- Psycholinguistic aspects of interlanguage
- Undelies
- Psycholinguistic aspects of interlanguage
- Canale and swain's model of communicative competence
- Communicative competence canale and swain
- Communicative competence
- La compétence communicative
- La compétence communicative
- Vocabulary and organizing of text
- Discourse organizing words
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- Discourse competence
- Discourse analysis in linguistics
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