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Walker, Elizabeth – Language Awareness, 2010
Commencing study through a foreign language in senior secondary school brings huge challenges because of the cognitive-linguistic demands of academic subjects. This paper argues for the need to blend sociocultural and systemic functional linguistic (SFL) perspectives to address this enormous task. Firstly, readers' attention is drawn to the less…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning, Bilingual Education, Intention
McKay, Sandra Lee – 1986
A study of the influence of the writer's social and cultural background and training on the organization of his or her writing was studied in essays written by two groups of students: Chinese students at the Beijing Institute of International Relations and the Xian Foreign Language Institute and foreign students in the United States. The essays…
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
Beebe, Leslie M. – 1983
Three questions in the application of native-language sociolinguistic theories to second language contexts are addressed: (1) Is transfer always a psycholinguistic process of interlingual overgeneralization? (2) Does attention to speech underlie all style shifting? (3) Is H. Giles' Speech Accommodation Theory adequate to explain all purposeful…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Interference (Language)
Allouche, Victor – Francais dans le Monde, 1994
An approach to writing instruction in a second language begins with a look at the different functions of oral and written language and proceeds to an analysis of stylistic differences. A number of examples are offered from French textbooks, letters, and excerpts from speech used on television. (MSE)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, French, Language Role, Language Styles
Ferhadi, Ahmed – 1988
A study examined the adjustments made in an individual's speech according to the age and native language of the person being addressed, and compared the results to previous findings on characteristics of "foreigner talk" and "mother talk". An adult native English-speaker addressed four people in turn--an adult native English-speaker, an adult…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Age Differences, Audience Analysis, Comparative Analysis
Silberstein, Sandra – 1983
The textbuilding conventions of courtship narratives told by older women of contrasting ethnic minorities are examined. Listener responses to the stories indicate that storytelling conventions are not shared or understood by all listeners. It is proposed that membership in different speech communities based on factors such as age, sex, ethnicity,…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context, English (Second Language)
Motta-Roth, Desiree – 1995
This study analyzed the English discourse organization of sixty academic book reviews in three disciplines (linguistics, chemistry, economics) published in 1990, to help define book reviews as an academic written genre. Analysis revealed that although book reviews show regularities in information form, function, and content, some variation occurs…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Chemistry, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis