SR 4: Experimental & Correlational Research

This fourth supplementary reading turned out to be much better than the third one for me. I think I can actually use this to help write my APP!!! It was quite long, though, and I kept thinking that there were too many in-text citations and other distractions in the article. Still, there was a lot of valuable information I can use. The title of the article is "The Skilled Use of Interaction Strategies: Creating A Framework For Improved Small-Group Communicative Interaction In The Language Classroom," and was written by Yael Bejarano, Tamar Levine, Elite Olshtain, and Judy Steiner.

The organization of the article was very easy to follow, even with all the in-text citations and such. Every section of the article had clear headings, and the graphs and charts were simple to understand (a nice change for stressed-out people like me!) The best part of the whole reading, for me, was the appendices. They provided hard copy examples of the strategies discussed in the articles, as well as the students' reactions to them. This is something that seems relatively easy for teachers to implement. Even more so, this turned out to be a good source for me while writing my APP (sorry about the rhyming there...couldn't be helped!)