ERIC Number: EJ1247799
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-2094-3938
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The Mediation of EFL Learners' Interaction for Word Processing within Collaborative Output
Niu, Ruiying
TESOL International Journal, v12 n2 p78-91 2017
Collaborative output has been found to facilitate L2 lexical learning due to the cognitive word processing engendered in it. Yet it is not clear how interactions involved in collaborative output could affect learners' word processing and hence their lexical learning. This paper takes a sociocultural perspective to investigate Chinese EFL learners' interactional processes in performing collaborative output tasks and how these interactions were associated with their cognitive word processing. A microgenetic analysis revealed that the participants engaged in six categories of interactional process and participants' interactional processes mediated their word processing. The findings highlight the lexical learning mechanism afforded by collaborative output.
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Language Processing, Vocabulary Development, Sociocultural Patterns, Learning Processes, Cooperative Learning, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Majors (Students), Task Analysis, Linguistic Input, Error Correction, Discourse Analysis, Interaction Process Analysis, Oral Language
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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