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Yayli, Demet – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2012
Since the language used by people has the potential to signal a membership in a discourse community, it is significant that prospective teachers speak the appropriate social language to be able to claim a strong membership in the community of teachers. This qualitative study explores a group of pre-service teachers' professional language use and…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Foreign Countries, Teacher Certification, Professional Development
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Kirkgoz, Yasemin – Teaching in Higher Education, 2009
This study reports the perceptions of students and lecturers on the effectiveness of the foreign language instruction in relation to students' academic needs in an English-medium university in Turkey. The theoretical framework of the study draws upon a discourse community (DC) perspective, which considers writing as a socio-cultural practice and…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Student Attitudes, Needs Assessment, Second Language Learning