Task Modality Effects on the Production and Elaboration of Language-Related Episodes: A Study on Schoolchildren’s Interactions in a Foreign Language

Task-modality has been found to constrain the production of LREs in adults and children. However, there are no studies with young learners that have offered a comprehensive analysis LREs. To this end, paper will examine effect task-modality on features targeted them, as well their level engagement/elaboration during primary-school learners’ performance task containing both an oral written component (OW), only editing phase (OE). In general terms, tasks fostered more elaborate meaning-focused than form-focused LREs, while higher engagement language was obtained OW task. A fine-grained different targets indicated terms led attend discussions word choice, OE enhanced focus meaning. As for greater morphosyntactic aspects spelling, latter. Morphosyntactic were also target together phonological aspects, slightly