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Download full textAtapattu, Thushari; Falkner, Katrina – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2018
Lecture videos are amongst the most widely used instructional methods within present Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and other digital educational platforms. As the main form of instruction, student engagement behaviour, including interaction with videos, directly impacts the student success or failure and accordingly, in-video dropouts…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Video Technology, Online Courses, Mass Instruction
Direct linkRoever, Carsten; Al-Gahtani, Saad – ELT Journal, 2015
ESL learners can find it challenging to use English in a way that is pragmatically appropriate to the situation and interlocutor. In this article, we explore the impact of increased proficiency on learners' pragmatic performance. ESL learners in Australia at four proficiency levels completed three role plays, and we analysed how the learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Role Playing
Tognini, Rita; Philp, Jenefer; Oliver, Rhonda – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2010
This paper reports on a study of peer interaction in ten foreign language (FL) classes, six secondary and four primary, over a period of four months. The focus of this paper is the nature of peer interaction, including the purposes of second language use, and language choice. The data, comprising observation, audio and video recordings of five…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewedSharifian, Farzad – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2001
Explores features of Aboriginal English discourse that appear to be associated with some distinctive roles played by schemas in processing and formation of discourse by Aboriginal children. Examines the complexity of intercultural communication between Australian aborigines and the dominant class of white Australians. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Language Processing
Steffensen, Margaret S. – 1981
Noting that register and cohesion are two concepts that define a text, this paper describes register as the variety of language that is appropriate for the situation of the speech event and cohesion as the semantic relations in a text that make it coherent. The first part of the paper discusses three cross-cultural studies of comprehension…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Cohesion (Written Composition), Cross Cultural Studies
Rado, Marta; Foster, Lois – 1987
Data collected in the course of conversations are used to compare some morpho-syntactic and discourse features of the language of non-English-speaking-background (NESB) and English-speaking-background (ESB) students and their parents. Particular emphasis is given to the processing task facing NESB children if addressed by their parents in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
