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Dooly, Melinda; Tudini, Vincenza – Classroom Discourse, 2022
This paper takes a multimodal conversation analytic approach to explore knowledge-in-interaction in a technology-mediated online environment (Skype videoconference) during a meeting between eight university students studying to become language teachers. The analysis considers the ways in which the student-teachers demonstrate their knowledge or…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Student Teachers, Information Seeking, Discourse Analysis
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Schenker, Theresa – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
The present study investigated the effects of group set-up in a semester-long telecollaborative discussion forum project in second-semester German. In order to explore whether group set-up affects learning in discussion forums, small groups of non-native speakers (NNS) of German were partnered either with native speakers (NS), other NNS with the…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Computer Mediated Communication, Teaching Methods, Native Speakers
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Hahn, Jee-Won; Hatfield, Hunter – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2011
Brown and Levinson's ([1978] Politeness: Some universals in language use, Cambridge University Press, 1987) politeness theory has been criticized as being ethnocentric by displaying a Western preoccupation with autonomy and individualism. Many non-western societies, it is argued, are better understood by appealing to cultural discernment or group…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Language Usage, Intimacy, Foreign Countries