IMPROVING THE UNDERSTANDING OF COMMUNICATIONDURINGNEGOTIATIONS BY USING FAMILIAR TASKS AND SUBTITLEDVIDEOSINAN ONLINE TASK-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING (TBLL) ENVIRONMENT.

Abstract

It is via the utilization of subtitled films that this study investigates the influence that taskfamiliarity has on the process of meaning negotiation. is a virtual environment that is designed tofacilitate language acquisition through the use of activities that are task-based. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the extent to which individuals who are not native speakers (NNSs) engage in the process of negotiating meaning in order to improve their understanding of information and to boost their ability to learn a second language. Acquiring a new language to learn. Through the utilization of a chat feature in WebCT-Vista and an onlinetask-based languagelearning(TBLL) environment that was developed expressly for this project, ten pairs of individuals who were not native speakers workedtogether to accomplish four communication tasks. A total of five pairs of students were shown movies with subtitles before they completed the tasks, whereas the remainingfive pairs of students completedthe tasks without watching the videos on their own. By utilizing Smith's (2003) modification of Gass and Varonis's (1985)model for negotiating meaningsequences in onlinecommunication, we were able to determine the degree of meaning negotiation that had taken place. As a result of theexamination of the conversation transcripts, it was discovered that non-native speakers (NNSs) who had a better
comprehension of the tasks engaged in longer conversations in order to explain the meaning, incontrast to those who did not havethislevel ofcomprehension.

Keywords: Improving The Understanding Of Communication, Tasks And Subtitled Videos, Task-Based Language Learning(Tbll) Environment.