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Fitze, Michael; McGarrell, Hedy M. – TESL-EJ, 2008
This repeated-measures, counter-balanced study reports on a comparison of quantity and quality of one teacher's language in face-to-face (FTF) and written electronic (WE) discussions with advanced English as a Subsequent Language (ESL) students. Transcripts from the two types of discussions were compared for complexity of teacher input and the…
Descriptors: Interaction Process Analysis, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Computer Mediated Communication
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Cafarella, Caterina – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997
Investigates, within the context of the question-answer framework of a foreign language oral proficiency test, the interactive nature of spoken discourse between Canadian students and assessors when there is trouble in talk as perceived by the assessors, with a focus on how they accommodate to the students. The study has implications for rater…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Evaluators, Foreign Countries