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Direct linkAl-Gahtani, Saad; Roever, Carsten – Applied Linguistics, 2012
L2 requests in developmental pragmatics research are commonly investigated using non-interactive data collection techniques or sidelining the larger discourse sequence in which the request proper is embedded. This study takes a different approach to the study of L2 requests. In a cross-sectional design, we collected role play data from learners at…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Social Environment, Pragmatics, Language Proficiency
Peer reviewedSelinker, Larry; Douglas, Dan – Second Language Research, 1989
Suggests a methodology for studying second language acquisition that is concerned with gaining insight into the use, development, and possible fossilization of interlanguage in important real-life situations. Specific interest is focused on the understanding ability of the non-native speaker to use English in discussing a technical field. (65…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography, Graduate Students
Peer reviewedGiacobbe, Jorge; Cammarota, Marie-Ange – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
The relationship between the source language (Spanish) and the target language (French) in the construction of lexis during target language acquisition was examined in two case studies, leading to the hypothesis that there are both systematic and nonsystematic approaches to the construction of lexis used by Hispanophones learning French.…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Processes
Download full textPickering, Michael – 1992
A case study investigated the emergence of language and language concepts in a bilingual child, a girl aged 16 months to 6 years, 7 months. Observations were made by the child's parents and relatives in the child's home where the mother spoke Finnish and the father English. The report summarizes developments in phonology, morphology, word-level…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, Concept Formation
Pham, Lee – Journal of Educational Issues of Language Minority Students, 1994
Presents various viewpoints on dual language acquisition by children. These include native language foundation, first-language monolinguals' vocabulary development, second-language learning, simultaneous acquisition strategies, television as a source of language learning, functions of language in discourse, analysis of conversation, syntax and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography
Rado, Marta – 1985
A study investigated the use of pronoun and demonstrative reference and ellipsis as cohesive devices in conversation between interlanguage-speaking parents, their children, and the children's classmates. The 24 subjects included eight Italian-, Greek-, and Macedonian-speaking migrant parents, their primary-school-age children, and the children's…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communicative Competence (Languages), Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis
