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Vandommele, Goedele; Van Gorp, Koen; Van den Branden, Kris; De Maeyer, Sven – Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study investigates the differential effects of a task-based inside-school intervention and an outside-school project intervention on the development of speaking skills of 56 beginner second language (L2)-learners. The study extends previous research by looking at development across multiple occasions instead of two (i.e., a pretest and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Indo European Languages, Intervention
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Gutierrez, Adela Ganem – Applied Linguistics, 2008
This paper draws on the Vygotskian methodological construct of microgenesis to study collaborative activity in an intermediate Spanish as a foreign language classroom. In this study, the construct of "microgenesis" is drawn upon to refer to both, the methodological "tool" to investigate language learning instances as observed in short periods of…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Cooperative Learning