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Direct linkTaguchi, Naoko – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2011
This cross-sectional study examined the effect of general proficiency and study-abroad experience in production of speech acts among learners of L2 English. Participants were 25 native speakers of English and 64 Japanese college students of English divided into three groups. Group 1 (n = 22) had lower proficiency and no study-abroad experience.…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech Acts, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
Alcon-Soler, Eva – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2009
This descriptive study reports findings on the relationship between focus on form, learner uptake and subsequent lexical gains in learners' oral production. The data for the study consisted in 17 45-minute audio-recorded teacher-led conversations, 204 learners' diaries (17 sessions x 12 learners) reporting what they had learned after each…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Classroom Research, Diaries, Second Language Instruction
Fujii, Akiko; Mackey, Alison – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2009
This research explores learner-learner interactions (n = 18) in an authentic EFL classroom. First, we examined the nature of interactional feedback provided during two decision-making tasks. We then investigated whether the learners had made use of the feedback by looking at whether (and if so, how) they had modified their output immediately after…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Sime, Daniela – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2006
This study explores the meanings that learners of English as a foreign language give to teachers' gestures. It is a qualitative, descriptive study of the perceived functions that gestures perform in the EFL classroom, viewed mainly from the language learners' perspective. The data for the study was collected through interviews with twenty-two…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interviews, Nonverbal Communication, Second Language Learning
Altenberg, Evelyn P. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2005
Three experiments examine the acquisition of word-initial consonant clusters by adult second language learners. Native speakers of Spanish acquiring English participated in a metalinguistic judgment task, a perception task, and a production task. The judgment task indicates that beginning, intermediate and advanced second language learners have an…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Second Languages, Native Speakers, Spanish
Orton, Jane – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2006
In the verbal linguistic systems, the target for English learners in China is educated native speaker accuracy. The target for more socially embedded interchange is yet to be established. Its basis needs to be formed from "what members of the target culture consider appropriate for foreigners and attitudes of learners themselves"…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction, Foreign Countries
