Does Talking with Peers Help Learning? The Role of Expertise and Talk in Convergent Group Discussion Tasks.

Tin, Tan Bee

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ERIC Number: EJ662955

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2003

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Does Talking with Peers Help Learning? The Role of Expertise and Talk in Convergent Group Discussion Tasks.

Tin, Tan Bee

Journal of English for Academic Purposes, v2 n1 p53-66 2003

Examines the extent to which talking helps learning in a convergent group discussion task, where the students' goal is to construct predetermined "true justified knowledge." Analyzes instances where the same group of Malaysian students, studying on a higher education program in the United Kingdom, both succeeded and failed to arrive at the truth. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Discussion Groups, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Oral Language, Second Language Learning

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Note: Special issue: Spoken Academic English.

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