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Negotiation of meaning sequences model (Varonis & Gass, revised by Smith) with trigger and resolution parts

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Description

The study's analytic framework codes chat interaction into negotiation of meaning sequences consisting of "two parts: trigger and resolution". The trigger is "the utterance or portion of an utterance on the part of the speaker that results in some indication of non-understanding on the part of the listener"; the resolution comprises indicator , response , reaction /, confirmation and reconfirmation . Five trigger types were found in this study: lexical, content, syntactic, task complexity, and discourse. Sequences of T-I-R or longer were counted; T-I-only sequences were excluded.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • A complete transcript of learner interaction, here produced because dyads communicated only via the chat tool

Constraints

  • Sequences consisting of only a trigger and indicator were not included in the data analysis

Target Learners

  • non-native speaker dyads in communicative second language tasks

Target Learning Objectives

  • quantifying negotiation of meaning as an index of input comprehension work in second language acquisition

Claims

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Key Sources

  • Arslanyilmaz, A., & Pedersen, S. (2010). Enhancing negotiation of meaning through task familiarity using subtitled videos in an online TBLL environment. TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, 9(2). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ898004
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title Negotiation of meaning sequences model (Varonis & Gass, revised by Smith) with trigger and resolution parts
description The study's analytic framework codes chat interaction into negotiation of meaning sequences consisting of "two parts: trigger and resolution".
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