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Levelt's lexicon model of language acquisition as the basis for immersive multimedia learning with peer support

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Description

The study grounds its intervention in Levelt's (1989) lexicon model of language acquisition and production, "as simplified by de Bot (1997)". The model "explains the acquisition of a language through the development of internal structures in the form of speech motor patterns, conceptual systems, articulatory motor systems and phonemization", treating language as reconstruction from learned phonological codes. The article uses this account to justify an immersive multimedia program in which English is the main medium of instruction and students repeatedly replay video clips and recordings until they can reproduce the language as native speakers do.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • A linguistically rich immersive environment with recorded native-speaker video and audio inputs in place of the teacher
  • Peer support activities so students can negotiate meaning and form, with teacher scaffolding and feedback when peers cannot push learners' ZPD

Constraints

  • The teacher's role is limited to facilitator or organizer rather than model
  • Social interaction extends the ZPD only with meticulous scaffolding strategies and appropriate feedback

Target Learners

  • First-year university EFL students

Learning Goals

  • Oral production skills in reading aloud and speaking in English as a foreign language

Claims

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Key Sources

  • Muslem, A., & Abbas, M. (2017). The Effectiveness of Immersive Multimedia Learning with Peer Support on English Speaking and Reading Aloud. International Journal of Instruction, 10(1). http://www.e-iji.net/dosyalar/iji_2017_1_13.pdf
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id levelt-lexicon-model-immersive-l2
title Levelt's lexicon model of language acquisition as the basis for immersive multimedia learning with peer support
description The study grounds its intervention in Levelt's (1989) lexicon model of language acquisition and production, "as simplified by de Bot (1997)".
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