{"title":"Group cohesion and learning opportunities in peer interaction","authors":"C. Leslie","doi":"10.30827/DIGIBUG.54149","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"espanolEl presente estudio investiga la interaccion oral entre pares en dos grupos de ingles como lengua extrajera basados en el enfoque por tareas, uno de ellos autodenominado como un grupo cohesionado, mientras que el otro se declara como grupo menos cohesionado. El objetivo es investigar como se crean oportunidades de aprendizaje a traves de la interaccion, y determinar como la naturaleza mas o menos cohesiva del grupo influye en el numero de oportunidades de aprendizaje entre pares. El estudio esta basado en las actividades realizadas en el aula durante un ano academico. La investigacion se encuadra dentro de una perspectiva sociocognitiva de aprendizaje de una segunda lengua y los datos provienen de cuestionarios y grabaciones audio de grupos de estudiantes que completaron ocho tareas orales. A partir del analisis conversacional, estas grabaciones han sido transcritas y analizadas de modo cuantitativo en relacion con las oportunidades de aprendizaje y de manera cualitativa para las interacciones que fomentan una dimension social positiva y conducen a oportunidades de aprendizaje. El analisis de interacciones revela la variedad de maneras mediante las cuales los estudiantes de ambos grupos crean oportunidades de aprendizaje. Analisis cualitativos adicionales demuestran como la relacion afectiva entre participantes influye en la cantidad de oportunidades de aprendizaje creadas EnglishThe present study investigates peer to peer oral interaction in two task based English as a foreign language classrooms, one of which was a self-declared cohesive group, and the other a self-declared less cohesive group. The objective of the study was to investigate how learning opportunities were talked into being through peer to peer interactions in these two groups and to determine how the cohesive or less cohesive nature of the class influenced the number of learning opportunities in peer interaction. The study was classroombased and was carried out over the period of an academic year. Research was framed within a sociocognitive perspective of language learning and data was collected from questionnaires and audio recorded talk of dyads, triads and groups of four students completing a total of eight oral tasks. Using conversation analysis, these audio recordings were transcribed and analysed quantitatively for learning opportunities and qualitatively for interactions which encouraged a positive social dimension and which may have led to the creation of learning opportunities. Analysis of interactions revealed the many ways in which learners in both the cohesive and less cohesive class created learning opportunities. Further qualitative analysis of these interactions showed how the affective relationship between participants influenced the number of learning opportunities created.","PeriodicalId":54349,"journal":{"name":"Porta Linguarum","volume":"2 1","pages":"245-265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Porta Linguarum","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.30827/DIGIBUG.54149","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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espanolEl presente estudio investiga la interaccion oral entre pares en dos grupos de ingles como lengua extrajera basados en el enfoque por tareas, uno de ellos autodenominado como un grupo cohesionado, mientras que el otro se declara como grupo menos cohesionado. El objetivo es investigar como se crean oportunidades de aprendizaje a traves de la interaccion, y determinar como la naturaleza mas o menos cohesiva del grupo influye en el numero de oportunidades de aprendizaje entre pares. El estudio esta basado en las actividades realizadas en el aula durante un ano academico. La investigacion se encuadra dentro de una perspectiva sociocognitiva de aprendizaje de una segunda lengua y los datos provienen de cuestionarios y grabaciones audio de grupos de estudiantes que completaron ocho tareas orales. A partir del analisis conversacional, estas grabaciones han sido transcritas y analizadas de modo cuantitativo en relacion con las oportunidades de aprendizaje y de manera cualitativa para las interacciones que fomentan una dimension social positiva y conducen a oportunidades de aprendizaje. El analisis de interacciones revela la variedad de maneras mediante las cuales los estudiantes de ambos grupos crean oportunidades de aprendizaje. Analisis cualitativos adicionales demuestran como la relacion afectiva entre participantes influye en la cantidad de oportunidades de aprendizaje creadas EnglishThe present study investigates peer to peer oral interaction in two task based English as a foreign language classrooms, one of which was a self-declared cohesive group, and the other a self-declared less cohesive group. The objective of the study was to investigate how learning opportunities were talked into being through peer to peer interactions in these two groups and to determine how the cohesive or less cohesive nature of the class influenced the number of learning opportunities in peer interaction. The study was classroombased and was carried out over the period of an academic year. Research was framed within a sociocognitive perspective of language learning and data was collected from questionnaires and audio recorded talk of dyads, triads and groups of four students completing a total of eight oral tasks. Using conversation analysis, these audio recordings were transcribed and analysed quantitatively for learning opportunities and qualitatively for interactions which encouraged a positive social dimension and which may have led to the creation of learning opportunities. Analysis of interactions revealed the many ways in which learners in both the cohesive and less cohesive class created learning opportunities. Further qualitative analysis of these interactions showed how the affective relationship between participants influenced the number of learning opportunities created.
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PORTA LINGUARUM is an international and interuniversity journal that specialises in foreign language didactics. Its aims to publish empirical studies, critical revisions, and theoretical models that relate to the many factors that influence the FL teaching and learning:
- The social and school context: the family’s social and cultural influence as well as the student’s mother language and its influence on the L2 learning process, etc.
- The students: their personal characteristics (age, gender, personality traits, etc.) as well as their attitudes, motivation, cognitive styles, etc.
- The FL teacher: the teacher’s mental representations, attitudes, motivation, individual characteristics, teaching methods, etc.
- Learning conditions and the learning process, variables that influence the teaching and learning processes in the classroom: efficiency of teaching strategies, teaching methods and techniques, second language acquisition processes, students and teachers interaction, effect of teaching resources and materials, etc.
- Learning outcomes: evaluation of procedures as well as the evaluation of the students’ communicative competence at different academic levels, etc.