Scaling Up Intervention Studies to Investigate Real-Life Foreign Language Learning in School

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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI:10.1017/S0267190519000126

Walt Detmar Meurers, Kordula De Kuthy, F. Nuxoll, Björn Rudzewitz, Ramon Ziai

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Abstract

Abstract Intervention studies typically target a focused aspect of language learning that is studied over a relatively short time frame for a relatively small number of participants in a controlled setting. While for many research questions, this is effective, it can also limit the ecological validity and relevance of the results for real-life language learning. In educational science, large-scale randomized controlled field trials (RCTs) are seen as the gold standard method for addressing this challenge—yet they require intervention to scale to hundreds of learners in their varied, authentic contexts. We discuss the use of technology in support of large-scale interventions that are fully integrated in regular classes in secondary school. As an experimentation platform, we developed a web-based workbook to replace a printed workbook widely used in German schools. The web-based FeedBook provides immediate scaffolded feedback to students on form and meaning for various exercise types, covering the full range of constructions in the seventh-grade English curriculum. Following the conceptual discussion, we report on the first results of an ongoing, yearlong RCT. The results confirm the effectiveness of the scaffolded feedback, and the approach makes students and learning process variables accessible for the analysis of learning in a real-world context.

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扩大干预研究调查现实生活中的学校外语学习

摘要干预研究通常针对语言学习的一个重点方面，在相对较短的时间内，在受控环境中为相对较少的参与者进行研究。虽然对于许多研究问题来说，这是有效的，但它也会限制结果对现实语言学习的生态有效性和相关性。在教育科学中，大规模随机对照现场试验（RCT）被视为应对这一挑战的黄金标准方法，但它们需要干预，以在不同、真实的环境中扩大到数百名学习者。我们讨论了使用技术支持大规模干预措施，这些干预措施完全融入中学的常规课堂。作为一个实验平台，我们开发了一个基于网络的工作簿，以取代德国学校广泛使用的印刷工作簿。基于网络的FeedBook为学生提供了关于各种锻炼类型的形式和意义的即时反馈，涵盖了七年级英语课程中的所有结构。在概念讨论之后，我们报告了正在进行的为期一年的随机对照试验的初步结果。结果证实了脚手架反馈的有效性，该方法使学生和学习过程变量能够在现实世界中进行学习分析。

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期刊介绍： The Annual Review of Applied Linguistics publishes research on key topics in the broad field of applied linguistics. Each issue is thematic, providing a variety of perspectives on the topic through research summaries, critical overviews, position papers and empirical studies. Being responsive to the field, some issues are tied to the theme of that year''s annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics. Also, at regular intervals an issue will take the approach of covering applied linguistics as a field more broadly, including coverage of critical or controversial topics. ARAL provides cutting-edge and timely articles on a wide number of areas, including language learning and pedagogy, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, language assessment, and research design and methodology, to name just a few.