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Rethinking Scaffolding: Examining Negotiation of Meaning in an ESL Storytelling Task.
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Ko, Jungmin; Schallert, Diane L.; Walters, Keith – TESOL Quarterly, 2003
Investigated what differentiated higher quality from lower-quality negotiation of meaning interactions as well as the consequences of these interactions in a storytelling task. Participants were students enrolled in English-as-a-Second-Language classes who told a personal narrative to a small audience consisting of he teacher and two classmates.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Learning Activities, Personal Narratives, Second Language Instruction
Multi-Ethnic Materials in Second Language Programs Classrooms
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Cobb, Martha K. – TESOL Quarterly, 1972
Paper presented at the 1972 TESOL Convention in Washington, D.C. (VM)
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Cultural Differences, Ethnic Groups, Language Skills
What the "Good Language Learner" Can Teach Us
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Rubin, Joan – TESOL Quarterly, 1975
Examines the learning strategies successful language learners employ and suggests that teachers can help their less successful students by paying more attention to learner strategies already seen as productive. (PMP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Language Ability, Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Using the English Dictionary for Comprehension.
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Scholfield, Phil – TESOL Quarterly, 1982
Discusses the active contribution a learner/user must make in using a dictionary and breaks the look-up process into seven main steps. (EKN)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Definitions, Dictionaries, English (Second Language)
A Mechanical, Meaningful, and Communicative Framework for ESL Sentence Combining Exercises.
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Kameen, Patrick T. – TESOL Quarterly, 1978
Discusses the theoretical foundation for sentence combining exercises for intermediate and advanced students in English as a second language (ESL) composition classes. A description is given of a three-stage sequencing of exercises, each successive stage corresponding to a less-controlled level within Paulston's framework of mechical, meaningful,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Learning Activities, Program Descriptions
Negotiation of Meaning in Conversational and Information Gap Activities: A Comparative Discourse Analysis.
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Nakahama, Yuko; Tyler, Andrea; van Lier, Leo – TESOL Quarterly, 2001
Investigated how meaning is negotiated in two different types of interactions between native and nonnative speakers: a relatively unstructured conversation and a two-way information-gap task. Results suggest conversational interaction has the potential for substantial learning opportunities at multiple levels of interaction even though it offered…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
The Neurofunctional Basis of Pattern Practice.
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Lamendella, John T. – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
Reexamines the question of why pattern practice fails by hypothesizing about the information processing activities that they entail. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Language Instruction