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Title: Strategic and Unpressured Within-Task Planning and Their Associations with Working Memory
Language: English
Authors: Li, Shaofeng, Fu, Mengxia
Source: Language Teaching Research. Mar 2018 22(2):230-253.
Availability: SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: http://sagepub.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 24
Publication Date: 2018
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Strategic Planning, Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Task Analysis, Cognitive Ability, College Students, Language Fluency, Language Processing, Chinese, Foreign Countries, Role, Films, Accuracy, Language Tests, Syntax, Questionnaires, Multivariate Analysis, Statistical Analysis
Geographic Terms: New Zealand
DOI: 10.1177/1362168816684367
ISSN: 1362-1688
Abstract: This study investigated the comparative effects of strategic and unpressured within-task planning on second language (L2) Chinese oral production and the role of working memory in mediating the effects of the two types of planning. Twenty-nine L2 Chinese learners at a large New Zealand university performed a narrative task after watching a 6-minute silent movie, followed by an operation span test gauging the learners' working memory capacity. The results revealed that (1) strategic planning enhanced fluency and unpressured within-task planning led to greater accuracy and syntactic complexity, (2) strategic planning facilitated the production of a syntactically transparent structure, while unpressured within-task planning showed an advantage for opaque, complex structures, and (3) working memory was drawn upon in unpressured within-task planning, but barely so in strategic planning. The data show that strategic planning benefits the Conceptualizer while unpressured within-task planning favors the Formulator. The data also suggest that the role of cognitive abilities in task performance is contingent upon the processing demands of different task conditions.
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Entry Date: 2018
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