Tipos de tarefas e estratégias de comunicação: investigando a validade de narrativas baseadas em tópicos e em figuras

Abstract

This study set up to investigate the validity of different oral tasks, namely topic-based and picture-based narratives, as data elicitation tasks. Our ultimate goal was to examine whether these two types of narratives would impact upon intermediate learners' L2 oral production, regarding their use of communication strategies (CS) during speech performance. Spearman correlational tests were run so as to check for ranking and frequency of the strategies used by participants in each narrative task. Results indicate that the type of task and its intrinsic characteristics may affect the use of CS in terms of frequency. Additionally, results show that the participants tended to experience fewer difficulties when performing the picturebased narrative, which led them to use a fewer number of strategies. On the contrary, the two topic-based narratives led participants to apply a greater number of CS.

Communication Strategies and Proficiency Levels in L2 Speech Production: a systematic relationship

“…Even if one argues that these task-repetition effects suggested by Bygate only apply for situations in each the very same task is repeated over time, it is plausible to suggest that, although the tasks of the present study had different topics, they were all narratives (retellings of past events) and were supposed to have the same intrinsic characteristics. This claim was corroborated in a very recent study by Prebianca and Silveira (2007) who investigated the validity of the three oral tasks performed by the participants of the present study. Results showed that the frequency of occurrence of CSs in the picture-based narrative was smaller than in the two topic-based narratives.…”