Rethinking TBLT in context: the negotiation of form.

Autor/in	Batstone, Rob
Titel	Rethinking TBLT in context: the negotiation of form.
Quelle	In: Language learning journal, 44 (2016) 4, S. 506-518Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0957-1736; 1753-2167
DOI	10.1080/09571736.2016.1227221
Schlagwörter	Kommunikation; Bedeutung; Kommunikation; Lernen; Lernen; Methodik; Aufgabenorientierung; Bedeutung
Abstract	The idea that task-based learning can be facilitated through negotiated interaction has been a major object of research amongst scholars interested in task-based language teaching for at least 30 years. In this article, the author focuses largely on one particular type of negotiation - the negotiation of form (hereafter NoF). His purpose is not to cast doubt on the practical effectiveness of NoF, but to question the limited attention paid by scholars to the importance of discourse and the role of context in rendering NoF prompts more or less salient to learners. In mainstream accounts of NoF, learners are understood to participate effectively in NoF by first engaging in communicative discourse with the teacher, and then periodically shifting their focal attention to form in real time and without disrupting the communicative flow. This rationale underplays the sizeable interpretative gap which attentional shifting requires. The author argues that NoF might be more easily achieved (and more adequately explained) if it arises not through communicative discourse but through 'learning discourse' - a discourse which involves engaging with language form as its overriding purpose. He provides some tentative evidence of a learning discourse in action and illustrate some of its difficulties through an example of a learner who struggles to participate in NoF episodes because he is caught between a pedagogic perspective and a socio-communicative perspective. He goes on to consider the role of contextual cues in enabling learners to predict and thus to some degree prepare in advance for upcoming episodes of NoF. The author concludes by suggesting that teachers might usefully take measures to raise learners' awareness of how and when NoF is typically operationalised in their classrooms. (Verlag, adapt.).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2022/2