Peer Interaction in the Foreign Language Classroom - 9781788929226

Multilingual Matters

Peer Interaction in the Foreign Language ClassroomAuthor(s): Elisabet Pladevall-Ballester\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Multilingual Matters, United Kingdom\nImprint: Multilingual Matters\nISBN-13: 9781788929226, 978-1788929226\nSynopsis\nExpands empirical research on peer collaboration and the potential benefits it may bring to learners.\n\nThis book highlights the role of peer interaction in the foreign language classroom and offers a broad and nuanced exploration of the different factors and contexts that mediate its effect on target language use and development.\n\nThe chapters focus on different age and proficiency groups (young learners, adolescents, adults), different instruction and task characteristics (face-to-face and computer-mediated instruction, pre-task instruction, proficiency pairing) and a variety of outcomes (fluency, accuracy, language-related episodes, grammatical knowledge, foreign language anxiety and affect, collaborative patterns and perceptions).\n\nTogether.