PAC7 at JALT2008 Proceedings Article Data

Article title, keywords, abstract, and writer profiles

Title:
Conceptual and Lexical Buildup in Strategic Oral Production

Keywords:
Communication strategies, teachability, procedural knowledge, Levelt's model, lexical strategies

Abstract:
This study deals with a fundamental pedagogical question about communication strategies (CSs). Various empirical studies about teaching CSs have shown that teaching them improves learners’ communicative competence; however, the mechanisms for this are by no means clear. Based on Levelt’s (1989) psycholinguistic model, an attempt was made in this study to clarify them by narrowing its focus only on a Conceptualizer component in his model, while controlling another component, Formulator. Empirical data were collected from 39 participants, of which 19 participated in a 5-week CS training program. From the results obtained by analyzing the collected data, the study discusses that teaching CS possibly facilitates learners’ processing in the Conceptualizer component by changing their lexical knowledge of the target language to procedural knowledge.

Writer profiles:
IWAI, Chiaki is a professor at Hiroshima City University. For more than 15 years, he has examining how L2 learners use and develop strategic competence. He is also interested in the issues of interlanguage pragmatics and of English as an international lingua franca. <iwai@intl.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp>

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