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"From the Sound, It Look Like He Said It from the Deep in His Heart": How Do English Learners Make Judgments of Pragma-Prosodic Meaning?
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Kermad, Alyssa – TESL-EJ, 2021
Prosody communicates pragmatic meaning far beyond that which is evident at the surface level of an utterance and can pose challenges to learners' pragmatic comprehension. The current study investigated how second language (L2) English learners made decisions about speaker intent when communicated through prosody. Seventeen English L2 learners took…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Wiki-Based Collaborative Writing in ESL Classrooms: A Study on Teachers' and Students' Perspectives and Attitudes
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Gomes da Silva, Mirella – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Computer-mediated collaborative writing has drawn attention from second language researchers and instructors for a few decades, and due to recent developments in Web 2.0 technologies, the possibilities of wikis for collaborative writing have increased enormously. However, few studies have explored the nature of wiki collaboration and interaction,…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Web Sites, Web 2.0 Technologies, Second Language Learning
Content-Rich versus Content Deficient Video-Based Visuals in L2 Academic Listening Tests: Pilot Study
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Lesnov, Roman Olegovich – International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
This article compares second language test-takers' performance on an academic listening test in an audio-only mode versus an audio-video mode. A new method of classifying video-based visuals was developed and piloted, which used L2 expert opinions to place the video on a continuum from being content-deficient (not helpful for answering…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Video Technology, Classification
The Effectiveness of Written Corrective Feedback and the Impact Lao Learners' Beliefs Have on Uptake
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Rummel, Stephanie; Bitchener, John – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2015
This article presents the results of a study examining the effectiveness of written corrective feedback (CF) on the simple past tense and the impact beliefs may have on students' uptake of the feedback they receive. A seven-week study was carried out with 42 advanced EFL learners in Vientiane, Laos. Students' beliefs about written CF were first…
Descriptors: Error Correction, Pretests Posttests, Cues, Grammar
Prompts and Recasts: Differential Effects on Second Language Morphosyntax
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Ammar, Ahlem – Language Teaching Research, 2008
The merits of recasts have been widely debated and investigated in and out of the language classroom. This quasi-experimental study examines the impact of recasts in comparison to prompts and no corrective feedback on francophone learners' acquisition of English third person possessive determiners. Sixty-four students from three intact intensive…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cues
The Role of Interaction in Native Speaker Comprehension of Nonnative Speaker Speech.
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Polio, Charlene; Gass, Susan M. – Modern Language Journal, 1998
Because interaction gives language learners an opportunity to modify their speech upon a signal of noncomprehension, it should also have a positive effect on native speakers' (NS) comprehension of nonnative speakers (NNS). This study shows that interaction does help NSs comprehend NNSs, contrasting the claims of an earlier study that found no…
Descriptors: College Students, Cues, English (Second Language), Higher Education