The effect of NNS–NNS and NNS–NS videoconferencing on the development of second language confidence

According to the functional model proposed by Sampasivam and Clément in 2014, the two determinants that build towards second language confidence (L2C) are richness and self‐involvement of the contact experience. This study adds to previous research by investigating, for the first time, the role of interlocutor type in the context of videoconferencing on L2C development. The participants ( n = 28) were students enrolled in a fifth‐semester Spanish conversation course. Using a counter‐balanced design, they conversed with a peer on Zoom and with a native speaker on TalkAbroad and also responded to an initial and two postconversation questionnaires. The results showed that overall the learners' L2C increased with both interlocutor types, but differences emerged in the examination of the underlying components of the data. Theoretically, the findings support the integrated model of Sampasivam and Clément and their assertion that videoconferencing is high in richness and self‐involvement and, thus, facilitates L2C development

Assertion · Context (archaeology · Conversation · Geography · Mathematics education · Multimedia · Videoconferencing · Communication · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching

• Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning

  Masatoshi Sato, Susan Ballinger•Peer Interaction and Second…•2016

  Incluir item

• Ethnicity, Contact and Communicative Competence in a Second Language11The author is grateful to Dr. R. C. Gardner for his comments on a draft of this paper.

  Open Access•Richard Clément•Language•1980

  Incluir item

• Reducing foreign language communication apprehension with computer-mediated communication

  Open Access•Nike Arnold•System•2007

  Incluir item

• Assessing cultural awareness and linguistic competency of EFL learners in a CMC-based active learning context

  Wen-Chi Vivian Wu, Michael W Marek et al.•System•2013

  Incluir item

• Interaction and instructed second language acquisition

  Open Access•Sasha Loewen, Shawn Loewen et al.•Language Teaching•2018

  Incluir item

• Bilingualism in minority settings in Canada

  Open Access•Nathalie Freynet, Richard Clément•International Journal of…•2015

  Incluir item

• Videoconferencing and the development of intercultural competence

  Open Access•Marta Tecedor, Raychel Vasseur•Foreign Language Annals•2020

  Incluir item

• Language anxiety and the online learner

  Open Access•Victoria Russell•Foreign Language Annals•2020

  Incluir item

• Miscommunication in native/nonnative conversation

  Open Access•Evangeline Marlos Varonis, Susan M Ga et al.•Language in Society•1985

  Incluir item

• The Contact Space

  Open Access•J Harwood•Journal of Language and Social…•2010

  Incluir item