'It's Like Chicken but Bigger': Effects of Communication Strategy in the ESL Classroom

Autor/in	Rossiter, Marian J.
Titel	'It's Like Chicken but Bigger': Effects of Communication Strategy in the ESL Classroom
Quelle	In: Canadian Modern Language Review, 60 (2003) 2, S.105-121 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0008-4506
Schlagwörter	Communication Strategies; Test Results; Foreign Countries; Immigrants; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Adult Students; Task Analysis; Narration; Pictorial Stimuli; Pretests Posttests; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kommunikationsstrategie; Ausland; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Adult; Adults; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Aufgabenanalyse; Fantasieanregung; Kanada
Abstract	This paper reports the effects of communication strategy instruction on second language performance (communicative success, speech rate, message abandonment) and on the use of communication strategies (paraphrase). Two classes of adult immigrants, enrolled in a full-time intermediate proficiency ESL program at a post-secondary institution in Canada, participated in this study. One class received 12 hours of direct communication strategy training, and the second served as a comparison group. Speaking tasks (picture story narratives, object descriptions) were administered as pre-tests at Week 1, immediate post-tests at Week 5, and delayed post-tests at Week 10. Post-test results showed a direct effect in favor of the communication strategy condition on range of strategies used in the object description task, which was more effective than the narrative in eliciting communication strategies. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of these findings for the ESL classroom. (Contains 3 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10