Efficacy of promoting awareness in ELF communicative strategies through PBL

Jody Yujobo, Ethel Ogane, Triciia Okada, Brett Milliner, Takanori Sato, Blagoja Dimoski

Students should be encouraged with opportunities to engage in meaningful tasks which promote the use of such strategies as repetition, paraphrasing, clarification checks and “collaborative completion of utterances in their interactions as they negotiate meaning and co-construct understanding in English” (Kaur, 2014, p. 159). A research project incorporating these ELF insights has been developed and project-based learning (PBL) was chosen as the pedagogical approach as it provides for communication and group collaboration similar to real-world situations. Student interaction with tutors and in focus group discussions (FGD) from two classes were recorded and transcribed for analysis of their use of strategies in order to maintain efficacy in communication. Results from pre- and post-project questionnaires on student beliefs regarding their use of strategies are also discussed.

The Center for English as a Lingua Franca Journal

The Center for English as a Lingua Franca

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ISSN 2189-0463

ISSN 2189-0463

http://www.tamagawa.ac.jp/celf/research/pdf/celf_journal_final2-1.pdf