Talking about German verb particles identified in concordance lines - from spontaneous to expert-like metatalk

• Autores: Eva Schaeffer-Lacroix
• Localización: Language awareness, ISSN 0965-8416, Vol. 25, Nº. 1-2, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Special Issue: Language Awareness: Achievements and Challenges: Selected papers from the 12th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness, Hedmark University College, Hamar, July 2014), págs. 127-143
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Johns reports in his text “Kibbitzing one-to-ones” (1997) that corpus-informed metatalk with a foreign language expert helps apprentice writers to make progress in independent text revision. Expecting this progress to be based on the development of expert-like ways to observe language features, I integrated Johns’ so-called kibbitzing methodology into a German course based on the TV love story Weissensee. The course, offered to a group of French students, included online discussions focused on verb particles considered to be relevant for execution of the writing task, which was to invent a film script scene for the Weissensee series. The students used the specialised Weissensee corpus and the general corpus deTenTen as writing aids. Both were accessed through the Sketch Engine concordancer. This article outlines the way in which the students talked with their teacher about language samples retrieved in concordance lines or in the first drafts of their writing tasks. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the data – the scripts of the discussions and the transcript of the filmed interview – provides the following results: the students got more insight into the semantic complexity of verb particles, and they got a better understanding of the link between content and form.