Improving language production using subtitled similar task videos Academic Article

abstract

• This study examines the effects of subtitled similar task videos on language production by nonnative speakers (NNSs) in an online task-based language learning (TBLL) environment. Ten NNSNNS dyads collaboratively completed four communicative tasks, using an online TBLL environment specifically designed for this study and a chat tool in WebCT-Vista. Five dyads were provided with subtitled similar task videos and the remaining five dyads were not. Language production was investigated in terms of fluency, accuracy, and complexity, including lexical and syntactic complexity. The data from the chat-scripts showed that NNSs produced more fluent and more accurate language when provided with the subtitled similar task videos than when they were not provided with them.

authors

• Pedersen, Susan

published proceedings

• Language Teaching Research

author list (cited authors)

• Arslanyilmaz, A., & Pedersen, S.

citation count

• 11

complete list of authors

• Arslanyilmaz, Abdurrahman||Pedersen, Susan

publication date

• October 2010

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Language Teaching Research  Journal

keywords

• Basic Behavioral And Social Science
• Behavioral And Social Science
• Clinical Research

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/1362168810375363

start page

• 377

end page

• 395

volume

• 14

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362168810375363