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Do students really learn a foreign language through role-playing? (Language Teaching & Learning).
Abstract
The pedagogical value of role-play in second language acquisition has theoretically long been acknowledged. However, here, it is intended to look at this type of interaction with a more practical approach, ie., considering the role-play as an interaction by itself. A micro-interactional analysis is conducted, based on a corpus of spontaneously performed role-plays by young Chinese adults in a class of French as a Foreign Language in Hong Kong. Various individual and collective learning strategies are shown, thus confirming the idea that it is possible to learn while role-playing.
1. Introduction
The pedagogical value of role-play has ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Do students really learn a foreign language through role-playing?...