Facilitating+negotiated+interaction

Facilitating Negotiated Interaction

Interaction is necessary for language acquisition. Follow along and see how this is implied through the three macro-functions of language.

1. Interaction as a Textual Activity- use of linguistic or metalinguistic features necessary for understanding language input. Comprehensible Input Krashen: Theory of i+1- presenting learners with input containing structures that are a little bit beyond a learner’s current level of competence Three ways to increase comprehensibility: -Repetitions -Simple conversations -Situational dialogues

2. Interaction as an Interpersonal Activity- use of language to promote communication between participants Long’s Interaction Hypothesis- oral interactions that implements negotiation promotes L2 comprehension and production, ultimately facilitating language development. Three ways to negotiate meaning: -comprehension checks -clarification requests -confirmation checks

3. Interaction as an Ideational Activity- involves a cognitive awareness and a sociocultural sensitivity, drawing on the student’s experience to learn in the environment, complex relations between the individual and the social Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development- zone that exists between a learner’s actual development and a learner’s potential development.

All three components are connected and build off of each other.

Input + interaction + output = L2 learning