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- Title
What Underlies Immersion Students' Production: The Case Of Avoir Besoin De.
- Authors
Lapkin, Sharon; Swain, Merrill
- Abstract
This article analyzes dialogues between pairs of eighth grade French immersion students about avoir besoin de. This article, provides examples of dialogues in which utterances are both process and product. As process, speaking transforms the students' cognitive processes into observable activity. As product, what the students say becomes fodder for reflection and a basis for further mental action. The cognitive processes that such dialogues reveal should help researchers to understand what underlies language use and language acquisition. The working hypothesis is that the dialogues that students engage in while solving language-related problems offer evidence of the cognitive processes and strategies learners use to produce an utterance, and represent their beliefs about how the target language works. The dialogue is not "enhancing" learning, or leading to learning, it is learning. In other words, learning is a continuous process of constructing and extending meaning and meaning-making tools which occurs when learners are speaking in joint problem-solving activities.
- Subjects
FRENCH etymology; DIALOGUE; ELEMENTARY education; STUDENTS; LANGUAGE acquisition; INTERPERSONAL communication in children; LEARNING
- Publication
Foreign Language Annals, 2004, Vol 37, Issue 3, p349
- ISSN
0015-718X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1944-9720.2004.tb02693.x