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| Task sequencing on oral performance in Portuguese as a foreign language | |
Santos, Sara 
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| 2024-12 | |
| Source Publication | Moderna Sprak
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| ISSN | 2000-3560 |
| Volume | 118Issue:3Pages:70-88 |
| Abstract | This empirical study examined Robinson’s (2010, 2005, 2022) Simplify, Stabilise/ Automatise/ Restructure, Complexify (SSARC) instructional design model of task sequencing. Thirty-four university learners of Portuguese as a foreign language participated in the research. The analysis employed a monologic narrative task and two independent variables: “± here-and-now” and “± planning time". Measures of syntactic complexity, lexical diversity, accuracy, and fluency were selected to analyse the learners’ output. A between-subjects design was adopted. Participants were divided into two groups: (i) sequencing group, in which the students (n=15) performed three tasks with different levels of cognitive complexity (simple task – complex task – more complex task); (ii) individual performance group (n=19), in which the students performed only one task (simple task, complex task, or more complex task). The inferential statistical tests showed gains in fluency and syntactic complexity (coordination index) regarding the complex task in the sequencing group, and increased accuracy and fluency for the more complex task, as compared to individual group performance. The SSARC model was considered to have pedagogical merit, which can help teachers design task-based syllabuses. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to fully test the SSARC model applied to oral task sequencing in Portuguese as a foreign language. |
| Keyword | Simplify, Stabilise/ Automatise/ Restructure, Complexify (Ssarc), TAsk Sequencing, Complexity, Accuracy, And Fluency, TAsk-bAsed Syllabus Design, Portuguese As a Foreign Language |
| DOI | 10.58221/mosp.v118i3.22645 |
| URL | View the original |
| Indexed By | A&HCI |
| Language | 英語English |
| Funding Project | The SSARC pedagogic model for task-based teaching to Chinese learners of Portuguese as a foreign language |
| WOS Research Area | Language And Linguistics |
| WOS ID | WOS:001156775000001 |
| Publisher | LMS-MODERN LANG TEACHERS ASSOCC/O BENGT HENNINGSSON, BOX 41, SE-425 02 HISINGS KARA, SWEDEN |
| Scopus ID | 2-s2.0-85166316434 |
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| Document Type | Journal article |
| Collection | DEPARTMENT OF PORTUGUESE |
| Corresponding Author | Santos, Sara |
| Affiliation | University of Macau |
| First Author Affilication | University of Macau |
| Corresponding Author Affilication | University of Macau |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Santos, Sara. Task sequencing on oral performance in Portuguese as a foreign language[J]. Moderna Sprak, 2024, 118(3), 70-88. |
| APA | Santos, Sara.(2024). Task sequencing on oral performance in Portuguese as a foreign language. Moderna Sprak, 118(3), 70-88. |
| MLA | Santos, Sara."Task sequencing on oral performance in Portuguese as a foreign language".Moderna Sprak 118.3(2024):70-88. |
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