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Focus-on-Form Through Collaborative Scaffolding in Expert-to-Novice Online Interaction

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dc.creator Lina Lee
dc.date 2008-10-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:10:11Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:10:11Z
dc.identifier 1094-3501
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/e655be39c78e46dfb5ee4e86312f60bf
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/13436
dc.description Synchronous Computer-mediated communication (CMC) creates affordable learning conditions to support both meaning-oriented communication and focus-on-form reflection that play an essential role in the development of language competence. This paper reports how corrective feedback was negotiated through expert-to-novice collaborative efforts and scaffolding with 30 subjects working on three different tasks—jigsaw, spot-the-differences and open-ended question. The findings reveal that text chats supported the focus-on-form procedure through collaborative engagement. Despite the fact that the experts were able to provide step-by-step scaffolding at the right moment to call learners’ attention to non-target-like-forms that resulted in error corrections, they needed to be made aware of not over-intervening as students reported interference between the expert's goals and the learner's. To maintain intersubjectivity, the use of both L2 and L1 shaped the route taken by experts and learners alike to negotiate L2 forms for both syntactic and lexical errors. The study concluded that it was not easy to provide corrective feedback and to attend to linguistic errors in a timely fashion during the meaning-based interaction. The long-term effect of focus-on-form procedures on L2 development through CMC remain to be explored in future studies.
dc.language English
dc.publisher University of Hawaii
dc.relation http://llt.msu.edu/vol12num3/lee.pdf
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1094-3501
dc.source Language Learning and Technology, Vol 12, Iss 3, Pp 53-72 (2008)
dc.subject Social Context
dc.subject Web-Based Instruction
dc.subject Collaborative Learning
dc.subject Computer-Mediated Communication
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Literature (General)
dc.subject PN1-6790
dc.subject Language and Literature
dc.subject P
dc.subject DOAJ:Languages and Literatures
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Literature (General)
dc.subject PN1-6790
dc.subject Language and Literature
dc.subject P
dc.subject DOAJ:Languages and Literatures
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Literature (General)
dc.subject PN1-6790
dc.subject Language and Literature
dc.subject P
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Literature (General)
dc.subject PN1-6790
dc.subject Language and Literature
dc.subject P
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Literature (General)
dc.subject PN1-6790
dc.subject Language and Literature
dc.subject P
dc.title Focus-on-Form Through Collaborative Scaffolding in Expert-to-Novice Online Interaction
dc.type article


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