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Non‐Native Speakers' Production of Modified Comprehensible Output and Second Language Learning
Author(s) -
Shehadeh Ali
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/0023-8333.00104
Subject(s) - psychology , linguistics , second language acquisition , language acquisition , first language , production (economics) , comprehension approach , second language , cognitive psychology , language education , mathematics education , philosophy , economics , macroeconomics
This study investigated the ability of NNSs to modify their output toward comprehensibility in the contexts of NS‐NNS and NNS‐NNS interactions and the degree to which such modified comprehensible output (MCO) was other‐ or self‐initiated. Picture‐dictation and opinion‐exchange tasks were used to collect data from 8 NSs and 24NNSs of English representing 13 different L1 backgrounds. The 2 tasks were performed in pairs (NS‐NNS and NNS‐NNS) and were audiotaped. The results showed that most repairs were self‐initiated and that NNS‐NNS interactions produced more other‐initiations and other‐initiated MCOs on the picture‐dictation task. The frequencies of these MCOs support the importance of modification toward comprehensible output as a process of second language acquisition.