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Srimani Chakravarthi; Gowramma Ittira Poovaiah – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2023
Alphabet-based languages are more often researched in literacy acquisition and education than akshara languages. Languages that use alphasyllabaries including symbols, called aksharas, represent a large portion of the world's languages, including the languages of the second most populous country, India. This conceptual research paper addresses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alphabets, Written Language, Teacher Education
Sean Kamperman – Written Communication, 2024
This essay analyzes the rhetorical framing tactics of a group of disability activists to understand how they use key words, topic shifts, and other framing maneuvers to amplify marginalized voices in public debates. Focusing on a town hall meeting and a legislator update meeting between activists and lawmakers, the author uses "stasis"…
Descriptors: Activism, Disabilities, Advocacy, Disadvantaged
Mulder, Jean; Thomas, Caroline – English in Australia, 2021
Although "VCE English Language (EL)" has been offered for twenty years in Victoria, Australia, the subject, and especially students' experience of it, has had little evaluation. Using data from four surveys conducted across seven years with over 1500 Unit 3-4 "EL" students, augmented by VCAA enrolment data, a profile of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Written Language, Oral Language, Foreign Countries
Mathieson, Kathleen – American Journal of Distance Education, 2012
Using Moore's (1993) theory of transactional distance as a framework, this action research study explored students' perceptions of audiovisual feedback provided via screencasting as a supplement to text-only feedback. A crossover design was employed to ensure that all students experienced both text-only and text-plus-audiovisual feedback and to…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Action Research, Online Courses
Suzuki, Shinobu – Written Communication, 2011
This study examines how Japanese students perceive the qualities of written arguments that were constructed to have different forms. Based on the theoretical dimensions of verbal communication styles that Gudykunst and Ting-Toomey (1988) proposed, the research questions asked whether the respondents would perceive direct arguments to be of higher…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Student Attitudes, Persuasive Discourse, Japanese
Chen, H. Julie – 1995
A study investigated 42 native English-speakers' (NSs) perceptions of the pragmatic appropriateness of refusal statements. The NSs rated the appropriateness of 24 written statements in 4 different refusal scenarios, which were collected from both native speakers and non-native speakers. Four weeks later, as a reliability check, the subjects rated…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Interrater Reliability
Kelly, Eileen; And Others – 1994
This paper discusses the development of a criterion-referenced assessment measure for both written English and American Sign Language (ASL) that can be used with deaf elementary through secondary students. The measure is presented as well as the results of a trial use. Developed by the Cleary School for the Deaf, the Cleary Language Assessment…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Check Lists, Criterion Referenced Tests, Deafness