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Manipulating cognitive complexity across task types and its impact on learners' interaction during oral performance

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/iral.2009.016

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The goal of this study is to investigate the impact of manipulating the cognitive complexity of three different types of oral tasks on interaction. The study first considers the concepts of task complexity and interaction and then examines the specific studies that have looked at the effects of increasing task complex- ity on conversational interaction. In the experiment, learners of English as a foreign language organized into 27 dyads carry out three different types of tasks: a narrative reconstruction task, an instruction-giving map task, and a decision-making task. Two different versions of each task, one simple and one complex, are presented to learners in different sequences. Task complexity is manipulated along the degree of displaced, past time reference, the number of elements, and the reasoning demands. Audio recordings are transcribed and coded for interactional feedback, which is measured in terms of negotiation of meaning (i.e., confirmation checks, clarification requests, and comprehension checks), recasts, language-related episodes (LREs), and repairs, all of which have been described in the literature as being conducive to acquisition. Both parametric and non-parametric statistical tests are used. Results are discussed in the light of previous studies that have looked at the specific relationship between task complexity and interaction, attention models (Robinson 2001a, 2003, 2005, 2007b; Skehan and Foster 2001), and how different task types may variously affect the way interaction proceeds during task performance.

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Psicolingüística, Ensenyament de llengües, Aprenentatge

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Psycholinguistics, Language teaching, Learning

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Articles publicats en revistes (Llengües i Literatures Modernes i Estudis Anglesos)

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GILABERT GUERRERO, Roger, BARÓN PARÉS, Júlia and LLANES BARÓ, Àngels. Manipulating cognitive complexity across task types and its impact on learners' interaction during oral performance. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. 2009. Vol. 47, num. 3-4, pags. 367-395. ISSN 0019-042X. [consulted: 15 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/48565

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