"Keep Your Friends Close": How Student Interactions Facilitate Second Language Acquisition. Corollaries for Times of the Pandemic Cover Image

"Keep your friends close": Przyswajanie języka obcego poprzez interakcje rówieśnicze a edukacja zdalna w dobie pandemii
"Keep Your Friends Close": How Student Interactions Facilitate Second Language Acquisition. Corollaries for Times of the Pandemic

Author(s): Andrzej Jarynowski, Karolina Czopek, Michał B. Paradowski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: social network analysis; interaction; econd language acquisition; COVID-19; emergency remote instruction

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on second language acquisition in the context of social interactions naturally taking place among learners, especially in immersion/Study Abroad settings. We showcase the methodology of social network analysis, which has recently shed new light on the relationship between the individual position in the social network and language acquisition, helping to determine which contexts, intensity and direction of interactions are most conducive to L2 progress. At the time of the current COVID-19 pandemic, physical interactions can pose an epidemiological risk. Thus, we conclude with a discussion concerning the challenge of maximising students’ exposure to the target language in the context of emergency remote learning.

  • Issue Year: 2/2021
  • Issue No: XXIII
  • Page Range: 115-132
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish