What drives alignment during text chat with a peer vs. a tutor? Insights from cued interviews and eye-tracking. (July 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- What drives alignment during text chat with a peer vs. a tutor? Insights from cued interviews and eye-tracking. (July 2019)
- Main Title:
- What drives alignment during text chat with a peer vs. a tutor? Insights from cued interviews and eye-tracking
- Authors:
- Michel, Marije
O'Rourke, Breffni - Abstract:
- Abstract: Alignment refers to the largely automatic tendency of interlocutors to re-use each other's language patterns in the course of authentic interaction (Pickering & Garrod, 2004). However, little is known about alignment during L2 interaction, where recycling of a partner's language - in contrast to L1 conversations - might be a more conscious, strategic behaviour (Costa, Pickering & Sorace, 2008). In this paper we explore attention and awareness of L2 speakers to their partner's language use during digitally mediated communication (text chat) and see whether and how they re-use each other's lexical phrases. Twelve English-L1 learners of L2 German participated in a task-based text chat discussion. Participants communicated under two different conditions: with a native speaker tutor vs. with a language learning peer. Three data sources were scrutinised: (1) chatlog analyses looked for re-used lexical phrases; (2) eye-gaze fixations on re-used text served as measures of attention; (3) awareness of language re-use was evaluated by means of cued interviews. Results reveal both unaware and strategic alignment; more of it happening in the tutor chat; and more advanced students being less inclined to copy their partner. Findings will be discussed in light of Costa et al.'s (2008) framework on L2 alignment.
- Is Part Of:
- System. Volume 83(2019)
- Journal:
- System
- Issue:
- Volume 83(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 83, Issue 2019 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 83
- Issue:
- 2019
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0083-2019-0000
- Page Start:
- 50
- Page End:
- 63
- Publication Date:
- 2019-07
- Subjects:
- Priming -- Convergence -- Synchronous Computer-mediated Communication (SCMC) -- Attention -- Awareness -- Writing
Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals
Langage et langues -- Étude et enseignement -- Périodiques
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- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0346251X ↗
http://www.elsevier.com/journals ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1016/j.system.2019.02.009 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0346-251X
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