Effects of mobile-supervised question-driven collaborative dialogues on EFL learners' communication strategy use and academic oral English performance.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated the effects of mobile-supervised question-driven collaborative dialogues (QDCDs) on reducing lower-intermediate-level English as a foreign language (EFL) participants' tendency of their first language (L1) use in academic collaborative dialogues and on improving their academic foreign language (L2) oral performance. Throughout a whole semester, one group (n = 20) was involved in a mobile-supervised QDCDs intervention and a control group (n = 26) was involved in QDCDs with no supervision. Three semi-open-ended and three closed-ended academic questions were used to elicit pre-and post-study oral performance data from the participants. Independent-samples t-tests showed that after the intervention, the mobile-supervised group outperformed its contr

SUBMITTER: Cai Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10352317 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature