2021 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
The use of model peer videos and recursive practice in language learning: A multimodal approach to the development of communicative and cultural awareness
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19K00895
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University of Foreign Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
Kindt Duane 名古屋外国語大学, 現代国際学部, 准教授 (70308930)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | L2 classroom interaction / multimodal pedagogy / language awareness / interactional competence / inclusion skills / peer modeling / recursive practice / conversation analysis |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This project progressed well in 2021. The main research focus for 2021 was, "What are the benefits, if any, of promoting contributory inclusion in EFL courses by introducing strategic skills related to acquiescing, downgrading, and asserting?" Further work organizing and analyzing L2 learner interactional data resulted in several findings, leading to papers presented at IPrA 2021 in June 2021 and cumulating at the AAAL2022 conference in March 2022. These included: (1) It appears that employing a CA-informed approach to a longitudinal selection of representative excerpts from focus students can uncover how participants display assertiveness, downgrading, and acquiescence, which may inform materials design and related pedagogy and ultimately improve learning outcomes, (2) From this case, for example, placing more attention on defining and modeling assertiveness and acquiescence can assist participants, both analysts and commenters, in doing interactional work to promote contributory inclusion, (3) These results may also encourage other educators to consider designing peer model materials and pedagogy to achieve inclusionary skills, or other important interactional skills, and (4) By building a database of, for example, displays of egalitarian co-construction in L2 tasks (like analytical skill development), a fuller picture of the relationship between quality interaction and skill-development trajectories can emerge. These will guide the direction of the study in its final year, 2022.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
Due to issues related to the pandemic, progress in 2020 was seriously delayed. For this reason, data from 2019 was used to further insights related to the overall objectives of this study. In the latter half of 2021, research assistants again were used to help with organization, transcriptions, and preliminary analysis of this L2 interactional data. As this analysis progress, a new theme emerged: the importance of developing interactional skills of assertiveness, acquiescence, and aggressiveness related to epistemic stance when achieving and maintaining intersubjectivity. Though covid restrictions continue to cause difficulty in international travel, one paper was presented at IPrA2021 (online) and in person at AAAL2022.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Though progress improved in 2021 compared to 2020, another year is required to meet the goals of the original research plan. The first half of 2022 will be used to continue working with research assistants to organize, transcribe, and analyze L2 interactional data supported by peer modeling and recursive practice, particularly with attention to co-construction of analytical skills and the interactional skills of assertiveness, acquiescence, and aggressiveness related to epistemic stance when achieving and maintaining intersubjectivity. These foci emerged from findings in 2021. Again, new research discoveries will be disseminated through papers presented internationally at Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2) and domestically at JALT2022. Related manuscripts will be submitted to academic journals for publication.
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| Causes of Carryover |
The reason for the surplus of funding was due to a reduced amount spent on research trips to conferences (some conducted online) and reduced assistants' wages and related equipment due to the effect of COVID-19, especially in the first half of 2021. Funding for the final year of the project, 2022, will be spent on support equipment acquisitions and for the whole academic year of research assistant work organizing, transcribing, and providing preliminary analyses of L2 interactional data. It will also help fund an international trip to the ICOP2022 conference (the highest profile organization in my field) in September and the JALT2022 conference in November.
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Research Products
(2 results)
