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Enhanced English conversations-for-learning: Constructing and using notes for deferred correction sequences

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Christopher Leyland

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Abstract

Conversations-for-Learning (CfL) have long been understood to provide various opportunities for second language (L2) learning. This study, however, investigates one language school's effort to boost the potential of CfL by adapting their structure. Enhanced Conversations-for-Learning (ECfL) begin with an unstructured discussion phase then a focus-on-form phase in which the teacher initiates several correction sequences on errors uttered during the prior phase. Tying these two phases together and fulfilling key objectives within each phase are real challenges for participants. This Conversation Analysis study investigates video-recordings of ECfL and shows the ways teachers and students collaboratively construct then draw upon written notes (that include details of ‘inscribed correctables’) to achieve the objectives of each phase, link the two phases, and promote key skills. Finally, this paper discusses implications for research on E/CfL settings and deferred correction practices, and then explores some ways that inscribed objects can facilitate L2 learning and teaching practices.


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Author(s): Leyland C, Riley J

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Linguistics and Education

Year: 2021

Volume: 66

Print publication date: 01/12/2021

Online publication date: 12/10/2021

Acceptance date: 12/08/2021

Date deposited: 09/02/2022

ISSN (print): 0898-5898

ISSN (electronic): 1873-1864

Publisher: Elsevier

URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2021.100976

DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2021.100976


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