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and he provided his arguments and reasons. The teacher first expressed appreciation for his efforts in answering the
questions and then corrected some grammatical errors in the student’s text. In the end, the teacher explained the first
question and encouraged more discussion from the student. A comparison between the student’s response and the
teacher’s revision is presented in Table 12. With the comparison, the student was provided with the opportunity to
raise his language awareness by reflecting upon appropriate words and statements in reconstructing his manner of
expression.
Table 11. Meaning negotiation between a Taiwanese student and a teacher
Topic Financial Advice
Questions 1. “Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and
schools are forgetting one of them.” (Robert Kiyosaki). Do you agree or disagree with this? Why?
Student’s
response
Teacher’s
feedback
2. “We can tell how healthy a country is by looking at its economic health.” Do you agree or disagree
with this? Why?
I want to answer the second question cause I don't really understand what the first question means in
Chinese.
And I wanna to say is economic is not the only one way to show the how healthy the country would
be. Including policy, freedom of public, national consciousness...etc. Especially environment issue is
the most important thing to attract me to know the country's system of organization, so i don't agree
just looking one's economic to know the healthy of country. It's my opinion.
Thank you for taking the time to answer the question. Because of your enthusiasm, I would like to
provide you with some assistance on grammar. So, below is an edited version of your answer:
Your answer:
I would like to state that I do not think economic health is the only one way to judge how healthy a
country is. Other criteria, including government policy, actual freedom the public enjoys, national
consciousness, and a host of others are also important. The environment of a country is the most
important issue that I take into account when judging a country's system of organization. Hence, I do
not agree that just looking at a country's economic health is enough to determine the health of a
country.
My response:
I would also like to provide my response to your question. I believe that in the long term it is difficult
for any country to have economic health if it is not good on its environmental policies, education
system, community development plan, and several other standards. Therefore, I believe that longterm
economic health is the best way of judging how healthy a country is.
About the first question:
Finally, the first question basically wants to know if you agree or disagree that school's provide
students with academic education but often forget about financial education.
Table 12. Indicating the differences to arouse students’ language awareness
And I wanna would like to say is state that I do not think economic health is not the only one way to show the judge
how healthy the a country would be is. Including Other criteria, including government policy, actual freedom of the
public enjoys, national consciousness…etc. and a host of others are also import. Especially, The environment issue
of a country is the most important thing to attract me to know the issue that I take into account when judging a
country’s system of organization, so I don’t. Hence, I do not agree that just looking one’s at a country’s economic
health is enough to know determine the healthy health of a country. It’s my opinion.
The student-student interactions in the CSCL community were also found to foster students’ language awareness on
the lexical level. Table 12 showed that in an online discussion forum, several students from different majors and
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