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Singaravelu, G.; Paramasivam, M. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2016
The study examined the insight of English Teacher towards students of standard XI in acquiring communicative skill in English. The main objective of the paper was to identify the problems of the students in acquiring communicative skill in English. The Normative survey method was adopted in the study. One hundred teachers were considered as a…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Skidmore, David; Murakami, Kyoko – International Journal of Educational Research, 2010
Prosody refers to features of speech such as intonation, volume and pace. In this paper, we examine teacher-student dialogue in an English lesson at a secondary school in England, using Conversation Analysis notation to mark features of prosody. We also make connections with Goffman's theoretical concept of footing. We show that, within an episode…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries, Intonation, Poetry