A pragmatic approach to negotiation and co-construction of meaning in intercultural second language acquisition

This doctoral thesis focuses on negotiation and co-construction of meaning within a pragmatic perspective. We analyse chat and videoconference exchanges within the project Telecollaboration for Intercultural Language Acquisition (TILA) in which native and non-native English and Spanish pupils at Sec...

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Autor: Tro Morató, Teresa
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:CBUC, CESCA
Repositorio:TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red
OAI Identifier:oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/672800
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672800
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Negociació del significat
Negociación del significado
Negotiation of meaning
Co-construcció del significat
Co-construcción del significado
Co-construction of meaning
Pragmatisme i discurs
Pragmatismo y discurso
Pragmatics and discourse
Telecol·laboració
Telecolaboración
Telecollaboration
Interculturalitat
Interculturalidad
Interculturality
Adquisició d'una segona llengua
Adquisición de una segunda lengua
Second language acquisition
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Sumario:This doctoral thesis focuses on negotiation and co-construction of meaning within a pragmatic perspective. We analyse chat and videoconference exchanges within the project Telecollaboration for Intercultural Language Acquisition (TILA) in which native and non-native English and Spanish pupils at Secondary Education levels negotiate and co-construct meaning, and discuss the pragmatic mechanisms allowing to adequate interaction. We analyse the mechanisms undertaken (e.g. requests, explanations and politeness strategies) and how the presence of native speakers may affect communication, and compare the mechanisms in terms of the digital application used. The thesis includes a didactic proposal in English and Spanish aimed at enhancing pupils’ pragmatic competence and at promoting meaning negotiation and coconstruction in language acquisition. We display multimodal tasks designed to be tested in the TeCoLa project as well as classroom activities to develop students’ pragmatic competence and make them aware of the essential role that pragmatics plays in communication