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Jo Mackiewicz; Colin Payton – Writing Center Journal, 2022
Even small, taken-for-granted words can have a strong influence on the pedagogical effect of a writing conference. In this study, we examined how experienced and trained writing center tutors' use of the discourse marker so helped them to connect ideas and to manage their conferences with students. We examined the extent to which tutors' use of…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Tutors, Discourse Analysis
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Hongqin Li; Lin Pan; Philip Seargeant; David Block – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
This study explores how preservice English teachers in China perceive and leverage their Chinese and English linguistic repertoires in ELT methodology training, and how a reflective understanding of their use of these repertoires can contribute to their development as teachers. To understand how their practices and conceptualizations of language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Code Switching (Language)
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Demir, Cuneyt – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Writing native-like has always been a primary purpose for non-native writers of English and, accordingly, many language components have been investigated to develop writers' fluency. One of these language components is syntactic complexity (SC), which is often regarded as a reliable way to grade any texts from easy to difficult. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Syntax, Native Language, Native Speakers, Second Language Instruction
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Zhu, Xinhua; Li, Guan Ying; Cheong, Choo Mui; Yu, Guoxing; Liao, Xian – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study investigates the relationship between three discourse synthesis skills (i.e., quotation, summarization, and connection) and students' overall integrated writing performance in Chinese, students' first language, and English, their second language. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that 63.6% of the variance in students' overall…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Discourse Analysis
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Fei, Yue; Weekly, Robert – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
This paper addresses the complexity of the linguistic situation in China by examining the language policy and language categorisation in the People's Republic of China (PRC), which has implications for how multilingual speakers conceptualise and practice 'language'. In addition, this paper examines the conceptual framework of translanguaging and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Usage, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Zuo, Miaomiao; Walsh, Steve – Classroom Discourse, 2023
This study considers translation as a joint enterprise in the management of both linguistic translation and associated meaning-making resources in English language teacher talk from a translanguaging perspective. Analysis of classroom teaching in Chinese universities using conversation analysis (CA) under the SETT (self-evaluation of teacher talk)…
Descriptors: Translation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Martín-Bylund, Anna; Stenliden, Linnéa – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This paper studies how transnational children and their distantly located but emotionally close family members recreate their relationship using applications for online video calling. The focus is on the interaction of bodies and language, and if/how proximity of any kind is enabled. A critical posthumanist applied linguistics is embraced and…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Family Relationship, Language Usage, Multilingualism
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Ning, Ruochen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
Social networks have been investigated as an important factor to understand social and language innovations for decades. Most researchers focus on one-language-dominated societies when studying social networks' influence on language practice while studies on bilingual societies remain scarce. In this study, we examine how Chinese graduate students…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Social Networks, Asians
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Wei, Jing; Duan, Jing – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019
This study investigates how L1 Chinese scholars in hard science disciplines use metadiscourse in their English academic writing, by comparing the deployment of metadiscoursal resources written by L1 Chinese and L1 English scholars. Hyland's (2005) interpersonal model of metadiscourse was adopted for the analysis. We found that L1 Chinese scholars…
Descriptors: Native Language, Chinese, Physical Sciences, English for Academic Purposes
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Li, Jingya – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2018
The Initiation-Response-Feedback (IRF) cycle (teachers' initiation, students' response and teachers' feedback) has been a key focus in studies of second language classroom interaction and participation. This paper aims to examine the influence of the first language (L1) in the Initiation-Response-Feedback (IRF) cycle commonly appearing in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Native Language
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Du, Biyu – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
Owing to its economic growth and social changes in the past two decades, China has become a popular destination for tourists, investors, and diverse communities of migrants. When foreign-language-speaking migrants interact with Chinese criminal justice system, they rely on interpreters to participate in the proceedings. Based on four-month trial…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Immigrants, Law Enforcement
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Huabin, Wang – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018
As one of the most widespread linguistic phenomena, code-switching has attracted increasing attention nowadays. Inspired by previous studies in this field, this paper addresses code-switching under the guidance of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), with the primary goal of analysing the interpersonal meanings of code-switching in three TV…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Television, Programming (Broadcast), Interpersonal Communication
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Zhu, Wuhan – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2017
This article discusses and compares how Chinese and English postgraduate students manage a harmonious relationship with university instructors by managing rapport and doing relational work in their academic request emails. The rapport-management strategies were explored and then further evaluated in relation to the taxonomies of relational work…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Graduate Students, Chinese, Electronic Mail
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Cappellini, Marco; Mompean, Annick Rivens – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2015
In this article we consider how the roles of learner and teacher are configured in a teletandem exchange between two students working in a university language centre with no external tutor present. Teletandem is a multilateral exchange (Lewis et al. 2011) via desktop videoconferencing. It is based on the tandem method, where two learners with…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Independent Study, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Li, Shaopeng; Yang, Lianrui – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
The present study aims to investigate the general characteristics of topicprominent typological interlanguage development of Chinese learners of English in terms of acquiring subject-prominent English structures from a discourse perspective. Topic structures mainly appear in Chinese discourse in the form of topic chains (Wang, 2002; 2004). The…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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