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Hermas, Abdelkader – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This study investigates the acquisition of genericity in L2 French and L3 English. While some exponents become generic by assembling morphological, syntactic and discursive cues, definite singular nominals additionally require the well-established kind restriction. It is a pragmatic and language-specific constraint. The participants are L1 Arabic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), French
Pathanasin, Saranya; Eschstruth, Ian – rEFLections, 2022
The aim of this study is twofold: to analyze politeness strategies in the online conversations of Thai students, and to suggest how this analysis can be applicable to pedagogical practice. A corpus of a 21-month instant online conversation among students and teachers has been analyzed. Throughout the time of data collection, the teachers…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Undergraduate Students, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
Yuichiro Kobayashi – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2021
This study aimed to identify second language (L2) developmental indices while controlling for the effects of first language (L1). More specifically, this study investigated the differences in the use of metadiscourse markers among learners from different L1 backgrounds. The following research questions were explored: (1) Which metadiscourse…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Park, Ye Lin; Oh, Sun-Young – English Teaching, 2019
The act of refusal takes place in everyday lives, but it has been discussed to be a difficult speech act for nonnative speakers. This study seeks to investigate Korean EFL learners' refusals in extended discourse along with their pragmatic perceptions. Sixteen college students were engaged in oral role-plays with two native English speakers and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
Li, Shaopeng; Yang, Lianrui – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
The present study aims to investigate the general characteristics of topicprominent typological interlanguage development of Chinese learners of English in terms of acquiring subject-prominent English structures from a discourse perspective. Topic structures mainly appear in Chinese discourse in the form of topic chains (Wang, 2002; 2004). The…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Al-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
Chiang, Shiao-Yun; Mi, Han-Fu – Language Awareness, 2011
Reformulation is mostly considered as an important verbal mechanism for coping with non-native speakers' speech production problem in second language acquisition. Drawing on interlanguage pragmatics and conversation analysis, the present study examines the specific ways in which reformulation is used to achieve mutual understanding in the…
Descriptors: College Students, Speech Communication, Metalinguistics, Interlanguage
Bagi, Viktoria – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation investigates the methods used by intermediate, advanced and superior level learners of German when quoting formerly uttered speech in direct discourse. The study shows that that there are different methods of speech reporting at different levels of language proficiency. Each level of speakers in the study used the quotative…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Interlanguage, Language Proficiency, Communicative Competence (Languages)

Ross, Steven – SYSTEM, 1988
Examination of the accommodation process in interlanguage discourse in a foreign language focused on the effects of various accommodation and negotiation strategies. Dyads of English as a second language students with different proficiency levels accommodated each other in ways similar to interaction between native and non-native speakers.…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Higher Education

Byrnes, Heidi – Foreign Language Annals, 1987
Advocates a "process" viewpoint of language use for second language proficiency testing and explores its potential for greater insights from five perspectives: text linguistics and discourse analysis; interlanguage; expectancy; negotiation and interaction; and communication strategies. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Interlanguage, Language Proficiency

Bongaerts, Theo; And Others – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1987
Some aspects of second language referential communication are analyzed in an experimental setting. The experimental task required subjects, who were visually separated but allowed to converse freely, to reach agreement on the ordering of a set of abstract shapes over a number of trials. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Dutch, English (Second Language)
Chang, Yuh-Fang – 2002
This study explored the relationship between discourse topics and interlanguage variation, describing the following: relationships between discourse topics and a second language learner's participation in native speaker/non-native speaker (NS-NNS) conversation; relationships between discourse topics and the grammatical complexity, accuracy, and…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)

Haynes, Laurie Ann – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1992
Investigates target language variability between speaking and writing in the second language acquisition of non-native English speakers. Results reveal that as narrators advance in English proficiency, they develop more abstract content and reported style in speech and writing and that speech and writing become more interactive. (28 references)…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis

Py, Bernard – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
Describes processes of facilitation involved in exolingual conversation (interactions between persons who are dynamically adjusting their respective linguistic performances) between foreign language learners and native speakers, concluding that such behavior is dynamic and creative, and incapable of being described and defined within predetermined…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Interaction
Mizuno, Harumitsu – Japan Association of College English Teachers: JACET Bulletin, 1985
The purpose of this paper is to examine the process of interlanguage development in Japanese adult learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) in acquisition-poor environments. A total of 353 subjects were divided into 9 groups based on their level of English proficiency and tested to determine: (1) what types of errors Japanese adult ESL…
Descriptors: Adults, Determiners (Languages), Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
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