TY - JOUR
T1 - Enhancing target language output through synchronous online learner-learner interaction
T2 - The impact of audio-, video-, and text-chat interaction on learner output and affect
AU - van de Guchte, Marrit
AU - van Batenburg, Eline
AU - van Weijen, Daphne
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In this study, we compared the impact of audio-, video-, and text-chat interaction on target language use during online learner-learner interaction and on learner affect amongst adolescent learners of German as a foreign language. Repeated measures and ANOVA analyses revealed a high percentage of target language output in all conditions for all four tasks, especially in text- chat. Audio-chatters produced the most output and used the most meaning negotiation, compensation strategies, self-repair and other-repair strategies. Learners in all conditions gained in enjoyment, willingness to communicate and self-efficacy. Anxiety reduced for text-chatters. Task effects partly determined the quantity of L2 output, while condition effects determined meaning-oriented and form-focused processing.
AB - In this study, we compared the impact of audio-, video-, and text-chat interaction on target language use during online learner-learner interaction and on learner affect amongst adolescent learners of German as a foreign language. Repeated measures and ANOVA analyses revealed a high percentage of target language output in all conditions for all four tasks, especially in text- chat. Audio-chatters produced the most output and used the most meaning negotiation, compensation strategies, self-repair and other-repair strategies. Learners in all conditions gained in enjoyment, willingness to communicate and self-efficacy. Anxiety reduced for text-chatters. Task effects partly determined the quantity of L2 output, while condition effects determined meaning-oriented and form-focused processing.
KW - SCMC
KW - audio-, video-, text-chat
KW - target language production
KW - focus on meaning and form
KW - learner affect
UR - https://benjamins.com/catalog/task.2.2
U2 - 10.1075/task.21003.guc
DO - 10.1075/task.21003.guc
M3 - Article
SN - 2666-1748
VL - 2
SP - 218
EP - 247
JO - TASK | Journal on Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning
JF - TASK | Journal on Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning
IS - 2
ER -