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Xiao Han – TESL-EJ, 2024
Within the communicative language teaching approach, current instructional materials often lack explicit guidance or fail to provide L2 learners with a wide range of resources in the target language. Conversation analysis (CA), which focuses on authentic talk, has been proposed as a potential resource for language classrooms. This study examines…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Chen, Qinghua; Lin, Angel M. Y. – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2022
Translanguaging and trans-semiotizing research has problematized the static view of language and argued that meaning making is a dynamic, material, social, and historical process across multiple timescales in complex eco-social systems. The second author proposed the concept of trans-semiotizing as an alternative lens to study language teaching…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Video Technology
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Islam, Md Shaiful; Stapa, Mahani Bt – Language Testing in Asia, 2021
Students of private universities in Bangladesh are often found to be less competent in spoken English. Since the universities have adopted EMI (English medium instruction) policy, the prevailing linguistic condition on the campus is an "English only environment." In this context, students are required to communicate in English both…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hamid, M. Obaidul; Doan, Linh Dieu – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2014
The significance of errors in explicating Second Language Acquisition (SLA) processes led to the growth of error analysis in the 1970s which has since maintained its prominence in English as a second/foreign language (L2) research. However, one problem with this research is errors are often taken for granted, without problematising them and their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers