Effects of Negotiation for Meaning Towards the Improvement of Classroom Interactional Skills
Interaction involves not just the expression of ideas but the skills in solving communication problems that occur. There is an opportunity to transfer information efficiently and ensure mutual understanding in communication when students negotiate for meaning. This study examined how students rec...
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2003
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| 在線閱讀: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/9373/1/FPP_2003_12_A.pdf |
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| 總結: | Interaction involves not just the expression of ideas but the skills in solving
communication problems that occur. There is an opportunity to transfer information
efficiently and ensure mutual understanding in communication when students negotiate
for meaning. This study examined how students receiving negotiation of meaning
training contributed significantly on a test of two-way information task. This study
involved 40 students of the English Academic Purpose course from the Universiti Putra
Malaysia.
The purpose of Chapter 1 is to provide an introductory overview of the study. In
particular, the background of this study, statement of the problem, the purpose and the
significance of this study are discussed. Chapter 2 covers the related theories and past
studies on negotiation of meaning. The discussion of the related theories are well
established in the second language learning field which view the vital role of negotiation for meaning in achieving communicative competence. Chapter 3 deals with the research
design and the procedures of the methodology in this study. This was a pretest-posttests
quasi-experimental design conducted on two intact groups of students. The study was
carried out over a period of seven weeks. The instrument used was a set of adapted two way
information task. Chapter 4 presents the findings of the data. Percentage, mean,
standard deviation, independent sample t-test and repeated measures analysis of variance
were employed to analyse the data. The study concluded that negotiation of meaning
training contributed significantly to the students' achievement in the two-way
information task. |
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