INVESTIGATION INTO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LEARNING FROM ACTION RESEARCH PROJECTS AUSTRALIA & SOUTHEAST ASIA

Abstract

The relationship of three main ideas is investigated in this paper: communicative strategies (CS); recorded conversations; and a foreign language (FL) setting. Communicative strategies can take the form of reduction and achievement strategies (Wei, 2011) and strategy markers and retrospective comments (Franch, 1994). Communicative strategies in second language (L2) learning consists of topic avoidance, message abandonment, approximation, word coinage, circumlocution, literal translation, language switch, appeal for assistance, and mime (Ellis, 1994). In an attempt to build communicative strategies learners are affected by their foreign language setting which can impede the development of CS. Therefore, it is necessary to record the conversations in order to promote learning output. Recording can assist learners with self-reflection and feedback.