The role of individual and social variables in task performance.

Dörnyei, Z. and Kormos, Judit (2000) The role of individual and social variables in task performance. Language Teaching Research, 4 (3). pp. 275-300. ISSN 1477-0954

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Abstract

This paper reports on a data-based study in which we explored - as part of a larger-scale British-Hungarian research project - the effects of a number of affective and social variables on foreign language (L2) learners’ engagement in oral argumentative tasks. The assumption underlying the investigation was that students’ verbal behaviour in oral task situations is partly determined by a number of non-linguistic and non-cognitive factors whose examination may constitute a potentially fruitful extension of existing task-based research paradigms. The independent variables in the study included various aspects of L2 motivation and several factors characterizing the learner groups the participating students were members of (such as group cohesiveness and intermember relations), as well as the learners’ L2 proficiency and ‘willingness to communicate’ in their L1. The dependent variables involved objective measures of the students’ language output in two oral argumentative tasks (one in the learners’ L1, the other in their L2): the quantity of speech and the number of turns produced by the speakers. The results provide insights into the interrelationship of the multiple variables determining the learners’ task engagement, and suggest a multi-level construct whereby some independent variables only come into force when certain conditions have been met.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Language Teaching Research
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The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Language Teaching Research, 4 (3), 2000, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2000 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Language Teaching Research page: http://ltr.sagepub.com/ on SAGE Journals Online: http://online.sagepub.com/
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? EDUCATIONLINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGELANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICSP PHILOLOGY. LINGUISTICS ??
ID Code:
10736
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Deposited On:
31 Jul 2008 08:44
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Yes
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Published
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