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Using written task answer sheets as notes while speaking: changing task-report practices in a second language book club

  • Eunseok Ro

    Eunseok Ro is an assistant professor at Kangwon National University. His research focuses on second language (L2) interaction in institutional contexts. His recent work has appeared in Applied Linguistics, The Modern Language Journal, TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Pragmatics, and Linguistics & Education.

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Abstract

The current study extends upon recent Conversation Analysis research on literacy events in second language (L2) educational settings. The study investigates the use of task answers as notes in an L2 book club member’s task report practices, including how he looks for things to say, how he chooses to read aloud, and how his task-report practices change over time with explicit instruction. Specifically, this case study shows how a facilitator’s specific instruction to not use task answers as notes during second orientation works as a catalyst for the L2 student to move from heavy to less reliance on his written answers to complete his task report. The findings offer insights into the way the student uses his task answer sheets as an affordance for managing an L2 task and how his changing task-report practices with the textual resource better meet the institutional agenda, one of which is to provide a venue for members to practice English as a second language.


Corresponding author: Eunseok Ro, Division of Liberal Studies, Gangwon National University, 60th Anniversary Memorial Hall, 3rd Floor, 1 Gangwondaehak-gil, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do, 24341, South Korea, E-mail:

About the author

Eunseok Ro

Eunseok Ro is an assistant professor at Kangwon National University. His research focuses on second language (L2) interaction in institutional contexts. His recent work has appeared in Applied Linguistics, The Modern Language Journal, TESOL Quarterly, Journal of Pragmatics, and Linguistics & Education.

Acknowledgements

I am indebted to all the participants that took part in this study. I am also very grateful to the three anonymous reviewers, the Editor of Text & Talk (Prof. Srikant Sarangi), Gabriele Kasper, Hanh Nguyen, Betsy Gilliland, Mary Shin Kim, and Richard Day for their constructive and insightful comments, feedback, and suggestions on earlier drafts of this paper. All errors it may contain remain my own.

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The online version of this article offers supplementary material (https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2019-0163).


Received: 2019-04-07
Accepted: 2021-01-13
Published Online: 2021-01-28
Published in Print: 2021-05-26

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