Encouraging Learners' Conversational Participation: The Effect of Content Knowledge.

Zuengler, Jane

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ERIC Number: EJ472768

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1993

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Encouraging Learners' Conversational Participation: The Effect of Content Knowledge.

Zuengler, Jane

Language Learning, v43 n3 p403-32 Sep 1993

The influence on interlocutors' relative content knowledge on conversational participation in interactions between native speakers (NSs) and nonnative speakers (NNSs) with limited oral skills is investigated. Results indicate that both NSs and NNSs appeared conversationally active, but there were different patterns of participation that could to some extent be explained by relative content knowledge. (39 references) (JL)

Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Higher Education, Interaction, Knowledge Level, Language Skills, Language Tests, Native Speakers, Oral Language, Prior Learning, Scores, Second Language Learning

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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