Picture-mediated role plays and Map-mediated role plays
Which plays produce what? What does the result mean?
I was looking for the answers for these two questions, and I think I uderstand Which plays produce what but I could go further for the second question.
One of the problem is that I don't know how is the map-mediated role play processing...
I guess that characters' names, circumstance(time and place) and the event are given in the map. The event was given by the CD-ROM but it is not in the map. It is in the students' mind. They need to recreate the clauses to do a role play. Am I right?
I'm not sure if I've got right, but this is what I understand.
When the students do the picture-mediated role play, they are given pictures with word balloons. On the other hand, when they do the map-mediated role play, the students are given map, which contains displacement of the characters. Both pictures and maps are tools for helping students to recall the script they have watched in the CD-ROM.
In the article, it is reported that map-mediated plays produce much more turns (228%) compared to picture-mediated plays. However, the language used in map-mediated plays has less mood structures, less ideational structures, and less thematic structures.
The result of this research means that, I think, students are given more specific context when they have pictures to role-play than when they have maps. So in the picture-mediated plays, the students show their understanding of the target language system and present more grammatically complete clauses in the map-mediated plays. When they have maps, on the other hand, they are given characters and situation but not specific context. They need to set the scene through exchanges and it seems that more exchanges likely to be produced in the map-mediated plays.