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This study investigated conversation construction behaviors that American students performed to finish highly-scripted conversation activities in pair work in the beginning Mandarin Chinese classroom. We find that students treated the activity in NNS-NNS pair like a translation task, and took the activity in NS-NNS pair more like a conversation task. |
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| He, Yunjuan. and Shen, Cynthia. "Conversation Construction Behavior during Highly-Scripted Pair Work Activity" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ACTFL Annual Convention and World Languages Expo, Disney Swan and Dolphin Hotels, Orlando, Florida, Nov 18, 2008 <Not Available>. 2011-06-07 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p238757_index.html> |
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| He, Y. and Shen, C. H. , 2008-11-18 "Conversation Construction Behavior during Highly-Scripted Pair Work Activity" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ACTFL Annual Convention and World Languages Expo, Disney Swan and Dolphin Hotels, Orlando, Florida Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-06-07 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p238757_index.html |
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Abstract: This study investigated conversation construction behaviors that American students performed to finish highly-scripted conversation activities in pair work in the beginning Mandarin Chinese classroom. We find that students treated the activity in NNS-NNS pair like a translation task, and took the activity in NS-NNS pair more like a conversation task. |
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| Conversation Construction Behavior during Highly-Scripted Pair Work Activity in the Beginning Mandarin Chinese Classroom This study was designed to investigate conversation construction behaviors that American students performed to finish highly-scripted conversation activities in pair work. The testing materials were two highly-scripted mini dialogues in English with the learned vocabulary and grammar patterns from the most recently introduced chapter in the textbook. Three participating students were paired up with their classmates to perform a mini dialogue first (NNS-NNS pair) and |
| during the activities with non native speakers and native speakers we are proposing a teaching method with greater learning effectiveness. We first pair students in classroom in order to make them recall the vocabulary and get familiar with the content of the mini dialogue. After that the instructor must give a follow-up check with at least one student. This step is an essential part to ensure that the student makes efforts on producing correct sentences in NNS-NNS pair; it |
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