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Download full textMagee, Vicky Y. G.; Jacobs, George M. – Online Submission, 2001
This study examined the talk of 20 university level learners of Mandarin as a Second Language in three instructional modes: teacher-led (TL), unstructured group work (UGW), and structured group work using a cooperative learning technique (SGW), in this case, Jigsaw. Statistical analyses showed that more learner talk (in terms of turns and c-units)…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Mandarin Chinese
Lim, Wai Lee; Jacobs, George M. – 2001
Using a Vygotskian perspective, this study investigated the possibility of secondary school second language students providing scaffolding for each other's learning during dyadic verbal interaction on a dictogloss task. Participants in the study were 19 English-as-a-Second-Language students from China, Hong Kong, and Korea, who studied at a girl's…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Cooperative Learning, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
