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Document Details : Title: L2 Tasks and Orientation to Form Subtitle: A Role for Modality? Author(s): ADAMS, Rebecca Journal: ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics Volume: 152 Date: 2006 Pages: 7-34 DOI: 10.2143/ITL.152.0.2017861 Abstract : Task-based language teaching has been advocated as a means of promoting learning through learner interactions in the classroom. However, characteristics of the design and implementation of communicative tasks have been shown to influence learner orientation to form. One task characteristic that may affect learner attention to form, modality, is examined here to determine whether it influences learners' tendency to focus on second language form. Forty-four adult ESL learners engaged in information gap tasks targeted at specific second language forms that required the learners to collaboratively achieve both an oral and a written outcome. Analysis of orientation to form in both spoken and written sections of the task indicated that task modality plays a role in influencing learner orientation to form. |
