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Download full textSiriprapa Srithep; Patharaorn Patharakorn – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2024
Through the lens of conversational analysis (CA), humor or funniness is not an inherent property of a message, nor an internal state of any social action, but as something interactionally achieved (Glenn, 2003). Teachers are often encouraged to utilize humor to reduce anxiety, lower affective filters, and make language more "memorable"…
Descriptors: College Students, English Language Learners, Humor, Role Playing
Lee-Johnson, Yin Lam – International Journal of Instruction, 2016
The KSA has become a popular country for Americans to work as an EFL teacher in the recent years because of the payment and cultural experience (Hastings, 2012). Due to the wide social distance between the KSA and USA, the teachers had to adapt to the expectation and become legitimate participants (Lave and Wenger, 1991) in the local communities.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Skalicky, Stephen; Berger, Cynthia M.; Crossley, Scott A.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
A corpus of 313 freshman college essays was analyzed in order to better understand the forms and functions of humor in academic writing. Human ratings of humor and wordplay were statistically aggregated using Factor Analysis to provide an overall "Humor" component score for each essay in the corpus. In addition, the essays were also…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Academic Discourse, Humor, Writing (Composition)
