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Doing Planning and Task Performance in Second Language Acquisition: An Ethnomethodological Respecification
Author(s) -
Markee Numa,
Kunitz Silvia
Publication year - 2013
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/lang.12019
Subject(s) - psychology , grammar , conversation analysis , linguistics , task (project management) , conversation , embodied cognition , ethnomethodology , applied linguistics , sociology , communication , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , management , economics , social science
We use insights and methods from ethnomethodological conversation analysis and discursive psychology to develop an account of embodied word and grammar searches as socially distributed planning practices. These practices, which were produced by three intermediate learners of Italian as a Foreign Language (IFL), occurred massively in natural data that were gathered during a 3‐week period from a third‐semester IFL course at a university in the United States. We develop a behavioral analysis of these data that shows: (1) what participants do during planning talk and how they do such talk and (2) whether they actually do what they planned to do.