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The Effects of Practice Modality on Pragmatic Development in L2 Chinese
Author(s) -
Li Shuai,
Taguchi Naoko
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/modl.12123
Subject(s) - task (project management) , modality (human–computer interaction) , active listening , test (biology) , control (management) , modalities , psychology , clinical practice , computer science , audiology , linguistics , artificial intelligence , communication , medicine , sociology , physical therapy , paleontology , social science , philosophy , biology , management , economics
This study investigated the effects of input‐based and output‐based practice on the development of accuracy and speed in recognizing and producing request‐making forms in L2 Chinese. Fifty American learners of Chinese with intermediate level proficiency were randomly assigned to an input‐based training group, an output‐based training group, or a control group. The input and output groups practiced the target forms over four consecutive days. The control group did not practice the forms. The effects of practice were measured by a Listening Judgment Test (LJT) and an Oral Discourse Completion Test (ODCT). The results showed that the effects of input‐based and output‐based practice were shared across task modalities on measures of performance accuracy (i.e., accuracy in the LJT and ODCT) but not on measures of performance speed (i.e., LJT response times, ODCT planning times, and speech rates).