Focus on form and negotiation of meaning in synchronous voice-based computer mediated communication: Effect of dyad

Communicative competence is the ultimate goal of most learners of a second language, and interaction beneficial to acquire it as interactional feedback may force learners to produce modified output, which contributes notably to language acquisition. Neither interactional feedback nor modified output in synchronous voice-based CMC have been researched, and the effect different kinds of dyad may produce in them has also not been observed. Our study tries to fill this gap by focusing on whether the kind of dyad has any significant effect on the quantity and type of language-related episode triggers, LRE responses and modified output in SVCMC.