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Development of L2 Pragmatic Competence:. The Data-Driven Teaching of German Modal Particles Based on a Learner Corpus Nina Vyatkina Penn State University - University of Kansas, USA. German Modal Particles. “smallwords” ( ja, doch, denn, mal …) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Development of L2 Pragmatic Competence:
The Data-Driven Teaching of German Modal Particles Based on a Learner Corpus
Nina VyatkinaPenn State University - University of Kansas,
USA
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German Modal Particles
“smallwords” (ja, doch, denn, mal…) interpersonal attitudinal markers in
informal conversations “indicators of pragmatic competence” “extremely important for the
communicative teaching of German” notoriously difficult to teach
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Modal particles as ‘lexical emoticons’
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Telecollaboration (TC)at Penn State (2000-2005)
American learners of German and German learners of English discussing intercultural topics in both languages using email and chat
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Corpus
Telekorp: bilingual integrated learner/native speaker corpus (Belz, 2005)
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Advantages of Telekorp electronic data come from real-life
status-equal interactions (not prompted production on a test)
no need for an external comparison corpus
materials from recognizable excerpts longitudinal developmental data marked-up corpus (over 30 learner and
task variables)
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Pedagogical intervention
Data-driven instruction
CMC practice
QUAN & QUAL analysis
CMC practice
Data-driven instruction
QUAN & QUAL analysis
explicit instruction based on
the analysis of data produced by the participants during
practice CMC sessions
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Corpus analysis procedure Automatic retrieval of words with an
MP potential (ja, denn, doch, mal) Manual disambiguation and tagging
of MPs and their homonyms WordSmith Tools (Scott 2001, 2005)
Dispersion plots Concord Collocates
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Collocations of ja with pronouns, NSs
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Collocations of ja with pronouns,learners
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Collocations of ja with pronouns, native speakers
Collocations of "ja" with pronouns, native speakers
15%
46%
39% I-pronouns
you-pronouns
Other
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Collocations of the MP ja with pronouns, learners
Collocations of "ja" with pronouns, learners
37%
6%
57%
I-pronouns
you-pronouns
Other
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MP Dispersion in the corpus Learners:1. ja2. denn3. doch4. mal
NSs:1. ja2. denn3. doch4. mal
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Results: mode/intervention effect
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chat/pre* email/pre* chat/post email/post
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Ger
* Statistically significant difference in mean relative frequencies (no. MPs/1000 German words), p<.05
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Relative frequency:each MP (post-intervention)
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ja denn doch mal
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Ger
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Contributions to L2 research and pedagogy a new method for data-driven teaching
L2 pragmatic competence drastic development shown to occur new pragmatic features requiring
instruction at advanced proficiency levels
corpus-based teaching materials comparison data for future replications
and related analyses