Enhancing L2 learners’ noticing skills through self-confrontation with their own oral production performance
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The central issue of the pilot study on which this article is based concerns the potential role of metacognition in the development of second language (L2) competence, specifically when L2 learners are confronted with their own videoed oral performance. An experiment was carried out at a French university with a group of first-year non-specialist undergraduate learners of English (N=12). The collected data for this research are comprised of (1) the filmed performance of learners carrying out an oral task in English, and (2) the filmed interview in French of the same participants engaged in metacognitive reflection upon samples of their own performance. The study thus endeavours to determine the potential of selfconfrontation, represented here by retrospective interviews of learners based on their own video-recorded language performance, as a way to develop noticing skills in L2. Résumé La question centrale qui sous-tend cette étude pilote concerne le rôle potentiel joué par la métacognition dans le développement des compétences langagières, plus particulièrement quand des apprenants de L2 sont confrontés aux traces filmées de leur propre performance orale. Une expérimentation a été menée dans une université française avec un groupe de 12 étudiants de première année du secteur LANSAD. Les données recueillies comprennent (1) la performance filmée d’apprenants en train de mener à bien une tâche de production orale en anglais, et (2) l’entretien filmé des mêmes participants alors qu’ils sont engagés dans une réflexion métacognitive en français sur des échantillons de leur propre performance. Cette étude s’efforce donc de déterminer le potentiel de l’autoconfrontation, définie ici comme un entretien rétrospectif confrontant des apprenants à des traces filmées de leur propre performance langagière, pour développer des compétences de repérage en L2. Nicolas Guichon et Cathy Cohen Université Lyon 2 Recherche et pratiques pédagogiques en langues de spécialité – Cahiers de l’APLIUT Volume XXXI N° 3, octobre 2012 – ISSN : 2257-5405 Enhancing L2 learners’ noticing skills through selfconfrontation with their own oral production performance
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