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Direct linkGriffiths, Ed – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2022
Communication strategies (CSs) have been generally viewed as ways in which learners may circumvent, and ideally overcome, communicative difficulties. However, over 40 years of research in this area has been largely confined to theory and experimental studies, and it is not clear to what extent CS research has filtered into contemporary second…
Descriptors: French, Communication Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Download full textEpp, Carrie Demmans – Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2017
Our current understanding of how migrants use mobile tools to support their communication and language learning is inadequate. This study, therefore, explores the learner-initiated use of technologies to support their comprehension, production, and acquisition of English following migration to Canada. Information about migrant use of technologies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology
Victoria, Mabelle Paderez – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2017
This study explores the experiences of a culturally and linguistically diverse group of immigrant adult students as they attended a 12-week employment preparation course for newcomers to Canada. The main aim of the course was to equip the immigrants with knowledge and skills, including English for employment purposes, which are necessary to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Language Role
Victoria, Mabelle Paderez – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2012
Many studies have explored the difficulties faced by foreign language learners when they begin the learning journey from survival to advanced level. Most of these investigations, however, tend to focus on what makes the road to fluency strewn with obstacles and challenges; no significant attention has been paid to what makes the journey…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Job Training, Teaching Methods, Sociolinguistics
Edasawa, Yasuyo; Kabata, Kaori – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2007
This study investigates the effect of a cross-cultural bilingual communication project on students' second language learning. A collaborative key-pal project was conducted between Japanese university students learning English and Canadian university students learning Japanese. Ethnographic data were collected from the students' exchanged messages…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Communication Skills, Bilingualism, English (Second Language)
Rossiter, Marian J. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2003
This paper reports the effects of communication strategy instruction on second language performance (communicative success, speech rate, message abandonment) and on the use of communication strategies (paraphrase). Two classes of adult immigrants, enrolled in a full-time intermediate proficiency ESL program at a post-secondary institution in…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Test Results, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
