The impact of face-to-face oral discussion and online text-chat on L2 Chinese writing

Framed within relevant interactionist and sociocultural principles, this study investigates the effects of two forms of pre-task pair planning on individual L2 Chinese composition writing: face-to-face oral discussion and online text-chat. Six intermediate L2 Chinese college learners engaged in ten pair-discussion tasks: five face-to-face oral discussion tasks and five online text-chat tasks. Upon completing each interactive task, learners wrote...