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- Title
Non-Native Speakers' Production of Modified Comprehensible Output and Second Language Learning.
- Authors
Shehadeh, Ali
- Abstract
This study investigated the ability of NNSs to modify their output toward comprehensibility in the contexts of NS-NNS and NNS-NNS interactions and the degree to which such modified comprehensible output (MCO) was other- or self-initiated. Picture-dictation and opinion-exchange tasks were used to collect data from 8 NSs and 24 NNSs of English representing 13 different L1 backgrounds. The 2 tasks were performed in pairs (NS-NNS and NNS-NNS) and were audiotaped. The results showed that most repairs were self-initiated and that NNS-NNS interactions produced more other-initiations and other-initiated MCOs on the picture-dictation task. The frequencies of these MCOs support the importance of modification toward comprehensible output as a process of second language acquisition.
- Subjects
LANGUAGE &; languages; SECOND language acquisition
- Publication
Language Learning, 1999, Vol 49, Issue 4, p627
- ISSN
0023-8333
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/0023-8333.00104