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Silvia Kunitz – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This paper adopts an ethnomethodological, conversation analytic approach to analyze the social organization of the instruction-giving sequences that were accomplished by a teacher of Italian as a foreign language during the last phase of a writing task conducted in pairs. Specifically, the paper explores the linguistic, prosodic and embodied…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Discourse Analysis
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Isaacs, Talia; Trofimovich, Pavel – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012
Comprehensibility, a major concept in second language (L2) pronunciation research that denotes listeners' perceptions of how easily they understand L2 speech, is central to interlocutors' communicative success in real-world contexts. Although comprehensibility has been modeled in several L2 oral proficiency scales--for example, the Test of English…
Descriptors: Ability, Suprasegmentals, Evidence, Language Tests
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Niemi, Jussi; Otsa, Lidia; Evtyukova, Aleksandra; Lehtoaro, Laura; Niemi, John – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
The present linguistic analyses of two children (aged 8 and 10) with Asperger Syndrome (AS) and their two matched controls are based on dyadic therapist-child conversations and on picture description tasks. The circa 100 analysis features covering aspects of (i) lexicon (e.g. prominalization), (ii) structural characteristics of turns, (iii)…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Interpersonal Relationship, Infants, Social Cognition
Hieke, A. E. – 1988
The transformation that language undergoes when it becomes speech is examined in English. Statistical analysis of a representative sample of natural, informal speech reveals a number of characteristics of dynamic speech that distinguish it from static (citation form or pre-dynamic) linguistic form. It appears that in running speech, vowels and…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Strategies, English, Morphophonemics
Local, John; Wootton, Tony – York Papers in Linguistics, 1996
A case study analyzed the echolalia behavior of an autistic 11-year-old boy, based on recordings made in his home and school. Focus was on the subset of immediate echolalia referred to as pure echoing. Using an approach informed by conversation analysis and descriptive phonetics, distinctions are drawn between different forms of pure echo. It is…
Descriptors: Autism, Case Studies, Communication Disorders, Descriptive Linguistics
Sun, Hao – 1995
Using a comparative rhetoric model, a study examined the discourse behavior of native speakers of American English conducting peer review discussions in English and that of native speakers of Chinese performing the same task in Chinese. Data are drawn from audiotape recordings of peer review discussions of eight college students, conducted in…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Cooperation