Strategic and Unpressured Within-Task Planning and Their Associations with Working Memory

Autor/inn/en	Li, Shaofeng; Fu, Mengxia
Titel	Strategic and Unpressured Within-Task Planning and Their Associations with Working Memory
Quelle	In: Language Teaching Research, 22 (2018) 2, S.230-253 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-1688
DOI	10.1177/1362168816684367
Schlagwörter	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; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Aufgabenanalyse; Denkfähigkeit; Collegestudent; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Sprachverarbeitung; China; Chinesen; Ausland; Rollen; Film; Language test; Sprachtest; Fragebogen; Multivariate Analyse; Statistische Analyse; Neuseeland
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. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01