Complexity and Interaction across Oral, Written and Online Discourse

Most research that observed online discussions compared them to either written (e.g., Hewing& Coffin, 2007) or oral discourse Joiner et al., 2008), never compiling the three modalities, and they did not provide comprehensive results regarding both form Interaction. Academic essays debates have been widely consumed in EAP classroom. However, effectiveness of synchronous forums EFL academic classroom their features need be tasks simultaneously through a analysis complexity, accuracy, The present study investigated use complex syntax, grammatical Interaction argumentative essays, debates, undergraduate students (N= 54) enrolled 12-week module English for purposes. methodology encompassed qualitative quantitative methods analysis. All data were qualitatively transcribed coded. Then quantitatively calculated using ANOVA post hoc t-tests find differences across each variable. Results revealed higher impact on syntactic complexity accuracy than greater influence interactional features. Synchronous highest as task combining structure Pedagogical implications then highlighted how could used rhetoric composition