EFL Communication Strategies in a Virtual World: An exploratory study (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781911369509)

This book reports the findings of an exploratory case study examining the communication strategies used between three adult EFL learners and their teacher during meaning-focused conversation tasks in the virtual 3D world of Second Life. The analysis of the session transcript reveals the extent to which the participants employed many of the communication strategies concomitant with face-to-face interactions for effective conversation management. The data also shows that the participants adapted their communication strategies to suit the virtual world platform, thereby overcoming the conversational ambiguities that arose from the absence of paralinguistic signals. Discourse analysis of the transcript offers further insight into power relations, politeness and risk taking and provides signs of sociocultural learning and language development in keeping with Second Language Acquisition theory.

Author: Susan Gowans
ISBN-10: 1911369504
ISBN-13: 9781911369509
Publisher: Linguabooks
Language: English
Published: 02/10/2022
Pages: 122
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.26d