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Hong, Chi-yin – Research-publishing.net, 2012
This study explores how low- and intermediate-level English learners manage face threats in MSN conversations. The effects of the addressee's status are also studied. Forty English learners, who were further divided into beginner and intermediate groups according to their English proficiency, participated in this study. Based on six offensive…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Modes
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Kuo, Jun-min – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2009
In order to fill in the research gap related to the theory and practice of critical literacy in Taiwan, this article describes an English Conversation activity offered during the 2005 spring semester at a university in southern Taiwan. The article uses a critical instructional model to analyze students' team dialogues as responses to a…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Critical Reading