Repair and completion strategies in the interlanguage of advanced EFL learners
ISSN: 0019-0810
Año de publicación: 2001
Número: 131-132
Páginas: 139-168
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: ITL International Journal of Applied Linguistics
Resumen
Research on learners' interaction has shown that many of learners' input and output needs can be addressed during the course of informal conversation and the negotiation of meaning. However, previous research with advanced learners engaged in pairwork on communicative tasks revealed very few instances of negotiation of meaning. The present study considers if learners' needs in an EFL setting can be addressed through interaction other than negotiation. The performance of seven dyads of advanced EFL learners and of seven dyads of those learners with English native speakers was analyzed on two communication tasks and two strategies were identified repair (self- and other-) and completion. Although during their interaction advanced EFL learners were resourceful in using these strategies, numerous morphosyntactic imprecisions were observed and led to the conclusion that the use of more complex, focus-on-form activities is in order in this context and for this level of command of the language.