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Learner Strategies for Filling the Knowledge Gap during Collaborative Tasks
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Gearon, Margaret – Babel, 2004
Recent research by Swain (2000a, 2000b, 1998, 1995), Swain and Lapkin (2001, 1998, 1995) and Kowal and Swain (1997, 1994) has examined the role of collaborative tasks in focusing immersion students' attention on the need for explicit knowledge of grammatical forms and lexical items in the production (especially written) of French texts. This is…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Cooperative Learning, Cognitive Processes