英文摘要 |
In second or foreign language education, video conferencing (VC) provides a vital opportunity for students to engage in cross-cultural communication with native speakers of the target language. However, due to some inherent limitations in the VC environment, teaching techniques significantly differ from face-to-face classroom instruction. This article develops a strategy for correcting speech errors in Chinese language daily-life culture VC classrooms. In order to test and verify the correction strategy’s true degree of effectiveness, this study has gathered a substantial body of research evidence via conducting twelve VC classrooms (occurrences) of teaching trials for international college students. These trial VC recordings were thereupon transcribed verbatim into manuscripts and statistical analysis of the encoded data found the following: the frequency of incorrect vocabulary usage was the most frequent type of error, followed by grammatical errors in second place. Errors made in use of vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, etc., were most suitable for correction via “Recasts,” whereas cultural knowledge errors were better suited for correction through “Elicitation” and “Knowledge Exposition”. In comparatively examining the results of this study with ESL/EFL research, “Recasts” were the most ideal method of speech error correction. This article would finally like to address that the evidence will be highly beneficial to VC teacher training program curricula, while simultaneously enhancing the quality of Chinese language VC instruction. |