Teaching interactional competence in the beginning levels – Conferences

Conversation closings in face-to-face interactions

CYU January 15, 2017June 15, 2017 Conferences, Interactional Competence - Workshops, Symposium on L2 Interactional Competence, Teaching interactional competence in the beginning levels – Conferences No Comments

Kevin García Cruz (CLIC, Rice University): 1) introduces and discusses his approach to teaching conversational features in the L2 classroom, which includes: a reflection on language usage in the students’ L1; a contrastive analysis of L1 and L2 conversation closing sequences; an analysis

Developing Interactional Competence with Limited Linguistic Resources

CYU July 13, 2016September 22, 2016 Conferences, Symposium on L2 Interactional Competence, Teaching interactional competence in the beginning levels – Conferences No Comments

Hansun Waring (Teachers College, Columbia University) discusses on specific areas of turn-taking, sequencing, overall structuring, and repair that may be amenable to instruction geared towards lower-level learners of ESL. Learn more about Waring

From Objectives to Assessment: Developing Interactional Competence for beginning students

CYU June 27, 2016October 31, 2016 Conferences, Symposium on L2 Interactional Competence, Teaching interactional competence in the beginning levels – Conferences No Comments

Meng Yeh (CLIC, Rice University) discusses on the steps that lead to establishing learning outcomes that are achievable for first year L2 Chinese students and the assessment procedures, both formative and summative, that were adopted to monitor the students’ progress

Expanding Basic Question-Answer Sequences

CYU June 27, 2016June 15, 2017 Conferences, Interactional Competence - Workshops, Symposium on L2 Interactional Competence, Teaching interactional competence in the beginning levels – Conferences No Comments

Katharina Kley (CLIC, Rice University) discusses (1) making students aware that minimal expansions occur in both English and German; (2) having students identify minimal expansions in authentic English and German interactions, and contrast and compare expansions in both languages; and

On the Development of L2 Interactional Competence in Online Spoken Communication

CYU June 20, 2016September 22, 2016 Conferences, Symposium on L2 Interactional Competence, Teaching interactional competence in the beginning levels – Conferences No Comments

Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm (Ohio State University): 1) presents an empirical study of L2 learners’ development of IC in German; 2) discusses the importance of learning L2 response tokens in developing IC; 3) shows that L2 response tokens should be explicitly taught to L2 learners.