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laiyuda
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by laiyuda » Tue May 30, 2006 6:48 am
Dear all,
I am a Ph.D. student in linguistics in Taiwan. I"m recently interested in second language acquisiton, specifically on aspect acquisition of EFL learners in Taiwan. I want to collect the data based on narratives; thus I decided to use illustrations for them in the writing task. I found "The Snowman" by Raymond Briggs a good one for my students to start with.
But, I still want to design a cloze-test like passage for the students after they finish their own writing so that I can do a cross-comparison about their distribution of aspects. Does anyone have the description or text that describes the illustrations in this book?
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EH
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by EH » Tue May 30, 2006 7:58 pm
Er... isn't the point of a wordless storybook that the reader gets to make up the words him/herself? Wordless storybooks are great for assessment, in that you can write down what the students "read" and then from the transcription figure out what language forms they've mastered and what forms are still weak.
Making a cloze task out of it would sort of defeat that purpose, I would think. Cloze tasks are better for books with words, because then there is an actual *right* vs *wrong* answer. Maybe you should try your cloze task with a different book--one with words?
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fluffyhamster
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by fluffyhamster » Wed May 31, 2006 9:59 am
I'm not sure if the following book would be interesting (assuming you haven't seen it already). I only mention it 'cos I remember it discussing some elicitation tasks that used a cartoon (albeit an animated one) as a stimulus (maybe Sylvester the cat and Tweetypie?).
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/06312 ... eader-link
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laiyuda
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by laiyuda » Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:26 pm
fluffyhamster wrote:I'm not sure if the following book would be interesting (assuming you haven't seen it already). I only mention it 'cos I remember it discussing some elicitation tasks that used a cartoon (albeit an animated one) as a stimulus (maybe Sylvester the cat and Tweetypie?).
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/06312 ... eader-link
HI there,
Thx for your info. I actually followed Bardovi-Harlig's research method to explore the SLA issue here in Taiwan. ^^