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Effectiveness of collaborative language tasks in language teaching and learning / Siu-lun Lee and Yongyin Chen

This paper focuses on the application of collaborative language tasks in classrooms teaching Cantonese as a second language in Hong Kong. An action research was carried out in a Cantonese classroom in Hong Kong. In this research, eighty beginning adult learners from different countries were studied...

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Main Author: Chen, Yongyin
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Published: 2013
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spelling my.uitm.ir.100122019-10-16T03:05:34Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/10012/ Effectiveness of collaborative language tasks in language teaching and learning / Siu-lun Lee and Yongyin Chen Chen, Yongyin This paper focuses on the application of collaborative language tasks in classrooms teaching Cantonese as a second language in Hong Kong. An action research was carried out in a Cantonese classroom in Hong Kong. In this research, eighty beginning adult learners from different countries were studied for ten weeks. Classroom observation, questionnaires and interviews were used to look at learners’ views about using collaborative tasks in language classrooms. Questionnaires and interviews results show that students have positive views about collaborative tasks. Classroom observation data show that students have made use of communication strategies, such as probing for additional information and rephrasing of questions in order to finish the tasks. 2013 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/10012/1/AJ_SIU-LUN%20LEE%20CPLT%2013.pdf Chen, Yongyin (2013) Effectiveness of collaborative language tasks in language teaching and learning / Siu-lun Lee and Yongyin Chen. Journal of Creative Practices in Language Learning and Teaching (CPLT), 1 (1). pp. 36-48. ISSN 1823-464X https://cplt.uitm.edu.my/
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description This paper focuses on the application of collaborative language tasks in classrooms teaching Cantonese as a second language in Hong Kong. An action research was carried out in a Cantonese classroom in Hong Kong. In this research, eighty beginning adult learners from different countries were studied for ten weeks. Classroom observation, questionnaires and interviews were used to look at learners’ views about using collaborative tasks in language classrooms. Questionnaires and interviews results show that students have positive views about collaborative tasks. Classroom observation data show that students have made use of communication strategies, such as probing for additional information and rephrasing of questions in order to finish the tasks.
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Effectiveness of collaborative language tasks in language teaching and learning / Siu-lun Lee and Yongyin Chen
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title Effectiveness of collaborative language tasks in language teaching and learning / Siu-lun Lee and Yongyin Chen
title_short Effectiveness of collaborative language tasks in language teaching and learning / Siu-lun Lee and Yongyin Chen
title_full Effectiveness of collaborative language tasks in language teaching and learning / Siu-lun Lee and Yongyin Chen
title_fullStr Effectiveness of collaborative language tasks in language teaching and learning / Siu-lun Lee and Yongyin Chen
title_full_unstemmed Effectiveness of collaborative language tasks in language teaching and learning / Siu-lun Lee and Yongyin Chen
title_sort effectiveness of collaborative language tasks in language teaching and learning / siu-lun lee and yongyin chen
publishDate 2013
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