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Herraiz-Martínez, Ana – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2018
This paper focuses on the teaching of pragmatics in English as a Foreign Language classroom and how the traditional way of teaching languages can be challenged. It also aims to highlight the importance of incorporating computer-assisted activities as well as other resources that can be introduced into the classrooms in order to teach pragmatics.…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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MacDonald, Penny; Garcia-Carbonell, Amparo; Carot, Sierra, Jose Miguel – Language Learning & Technology, 2013
This study focuses on the computer-aided analysis of interlanguage errors made by the participants in the telematic simulation IDEELS (Intercultural Dynamics in European Education through on-Line Simulation). The synchronous and asynchronous communication analysed was part of the MiLC Corpus, a multilingual learner corpus of texts written by…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interlanguage
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Soler, Eva Alcon; Pitarch, Josep Guzman – International Journal of English Studies, 2010
The benefits of instruction on learners' production and awareness of speech acts is well documented (see Alcon and Martinez-Flor, 2008, for a review of pragmatics in instructional contexts). However, few studies examine the influence that instruction may have on the cognitive processes involved in speech act production (Felix-Brasdefer, 2008). In…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Second Language Learning, Cognitive Processes, Second Language Instruction
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Bataller, Rebeca – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
This study addresses the development of the request strategies used in two service encounter scenarios by 31 nonnative speakers of Spanish spending 4 months living and studying in Valencia, Spain. The main method of data collection was an open role-play in which participants interacted with a Spanish native speaker. Results show that while there…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
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Rothman, Jason; Iverson, Michael – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2007
It has been argued that extended exposure to naturalistic input provides L2 learners with more of an opportunity to converge of target morphosyntactic competence as compared to classroom-only environments, given that the former provide more positive evidence of less salient linguistic properties than the latter (e.g., Isabelli 2004). Implicitly,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages)
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Lafford, Barbara A.; Ryan, John M. – Hispania, 1995
Examination of the development of form/function relations of the prepositions "por" and "para" at different levels of proficiency in the interlanguage of study-abroad students in Granada, Spain, revealed "noncanonical" as well as "canonical" uses of these prepositions. The most common noncanonical uses were…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries