Mroz, Aurore. (2012). Negotiation and co-construction of meaning in French as a foreign language (FLE) during immersion in a virtual learning environment (VLE): What about the critical skills and technology of learners of a foreign language?. The Canadian Modern Language Review/La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes, 68(4), 359-392.
摘要:This study explored the developed and acquired critical competence of a group of American learners of French as a second language (L2), intermediate level, within a virtual learning environment (VLE). In this VLE, students had to resolve complex problems in a collaborative way. The study focused on the concept of negotiation and co-construction of meaning as a paradigmatic phenomenon of emerging critical competence for learners of a foreign language. It first aimed to evaluate the nature of discourse schemas produced by these learners when chatting in the VLE in order to find out what these schemas indicated about the quality of the critical competence of these learners. Furthermore, this study wanted to explore the learners' perception of the impact of their immersion within the VLE on the development of their critical competence in French in order to better inform the way VLEs should be used in foreign language courses. This study was based on a mixed methods research protocol that favoured the complementarity of quantitative and qualitative data in order to increase the results' validity and credibility. Adapted from the source document
关键词:applied linguistics, non-native language instruction languages other than English, French as a Second Language Learning, Negotiation, Language Proficiency, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Student Attitudes, Schemas, Learning Environment, Computer Mediated Communication, French as a Second Language Instruction