REAL Doc with Ashley Beccia

Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL (SALT) is hosting an Interdisciplinary Working Session at our next REAL Doc Zoom & Learn with Ashley Beccia

 April 22, Friday 10:30am-11:30am (EST)

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Title: The effect of tasks’ cognitive complexity and motivational features on young EFL learners’ acquisition of English question formation

Data description: 

Data for this session are from Ashley’s pilot study, which investigates how the cognitive complexity and motivational features of two-way info gap tasks impact young Tunisian EFL learners’ acquisition of English question formation. This REAL Doc session affords attendees the opportunity to analyze the young learners’ production of questions in English as they complete tasks of varying degrees of cognitive complexity and differential presence of motivational features. 

Bio: 

Ashley Beccia is a doctoral student of Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University, specializing in Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Her research interests include task-based language teaching, child SLA, and instructed SLA of young learners. She has seven years of ESL/EFL teaching experience in a wide range of settings, including in-person and virtual and locations such as Argentina, Afghanistan, and the Bronx, NY.

REAL Doc Zoom & Learn is a forum sponsored by the Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL (SALT) journal and dedicated to doctoral student research in education and applied linguistics.