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Does Participating in a Telecollaborative Project Foster the Acquisition of Apologies? Insights from the English for Specific Purposes Context
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Research-publishing.net . 2022. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- The aim of the study was to investigate whether telecollaboration is a suitable environment for the acquisition of the speech act of apologies. Participants were aerospace engineering students from the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) who performed six open role-plays to elicit apologies. The Control Group (CG, n=17) carried out the task in pairs with their Spanish classmates in a Face-To-Face (FTF) setting, while the Experimental Group (EG, n=7) conducted the task with first language (L1) or highly proficient speakers of English from the University of Bath (UK) through synchronous Zoom sessions. The results of the descriptive analysis revealed a higher tendency of improvement in the EG, which also used a higher number of strategies compared to the CG. Findings from the quantitative analysis carried out through an Eta coefficient revealed a significant correlation (r=0.71) between the number of strategies used and the modality where they were performed. [For the complete volume, "Intelligent CALL, Granular Systems and Learner Data: Short Papers from EUROCALL 2022 (30th, Reykjavik, Iceland, August 17-19, 2022)," see ED624779.]
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Research-publishing.net
- Publication Type :
- Conference
- Accession number :
- ED625185
- Document Type :
- Speeches/Meeting Papers<br />Reports - Research