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| Title: | Negotiation of meaning in small-group discussions |
| Authors: | Carmichael, Sarah |
| Keywords: | English language
Teaching methods
Negotiated interaction
Group discussion |
| Issue Date: | Mar-1997 |
| Citation: | Working papers from the Language Centre : exploring language, p. 82-98. |
| Abstract: | I investigated learners performing three oral discussion tasks in groups of three different sizes: dyads, triads and groups of four. A primary aim of the study was to investigate whether differences in group size result in different levels of participation by individual group members. I was also interested to see whether differences in group size have any effect on the quantity or type of negotiated interaction produced in the discussions. The lack of a consistent definition of the term 'negotiation' in previous studies also made it necessary to establish a system for classifying and describing the instances of negotiated interaction promoted by the research tasks. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1783.1/1381 |
| Appears in Collections: | LANG Working Papers
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