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Hellermann, John – Classroom Discourse, 2018
The terms "interactional competence" and "learning" are discussed in the context of recent research in the areas of cognitive science and ethnomethodological conversation analysis studies of language learning. Two data excerpts from a longitudinal case study of a beginning learner of English are presented to illustrate (1) the…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies, English (Second Language)
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Atar, Cihat; Seedhouse, Paul – International Journal of Instruction, 2018
This study analyses teacher-led clarification sequences in a university second language classroom setting from a conversation-analytic perspective. In the literature, there are many studies of clarification requests, but the focus is on individual categories and quantification. No previous study has examined clarification, as reconceptualised in…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, College Second Language Programs, Foreign Students, English (Second Language)
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Yildiz, Mustafa – International Journal of English Studies, 2016
The present study aimed at finding whether L1 Turkish caused interference errors on Turkish EFL learners' spoken English discourse. Whether English proficiency level had any effect on the number of errors learners made was further investigated. The participants were given the chance to choose one of the two alternative topics to speak about. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Contrastive Linguistics, Turkish, English (Second Language)
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Buffagni, Claudia; Garzelli, Beatrice; Ghia, Elisa – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2017
The present contribution focuses on Benigni's auteur film "La vita è bella" (Italy, 1997) as a tool for the development of language competence in L2 English, Spanish and German, as well as of translation skills from Italian into these languages. The project, developed at the CLASS Language Centre at the University for Foreigners of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Films, Film Study, Technology Uses in Education
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Rabab'ah, Ghaleb – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
This study examines the effect of communication strategy instruction on EFL students' oral communicative ability and their strategic competence. In a 14-week English as a Foreign Language (EFL) course (English Use II) based on Communicative Language Teaching approach, 80 learners were divided into two groups. The strategy training group (n = 44)…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction
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Lantz-Andersson, Annika; Vigmo, Sylvi; Bowen, Rhonwen – Research-publishing.net, 2012
The amount of time that people, especially young people, spend on communicative activities in social media is rapidly increasing. We are facing new arenas with great potential for learning in general and for language learning in particular, but their impact on learning is not yet acknowledged as such in educational practice (e.g., Conole, 2010;…
Descriptors: Social Networks, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Social Media