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L1 Pragmatic Cultural Schema and Pragmatic Assessment: Variations in Non-Native Teachers' Scoring Criteria
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Dabbagh, Ali; Babaii, Esmat – TESL-EJ, 2021
The present study investigated non-native speaker (NNS) teachers' data-driven criteria in scoring multiple-rejoinder written discourse completion test tasks (MR-WDCT) and their points of (mis)match with expert-driven criteria. Specifically, this study scrutinized factors considered by NNS experienced and novice teachers in evaluating responses to…
Descriptors: Scoring, Pragmatics, Native Language, Second Language Learning
The Role of Language Teachers as Cultural Diplomats
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Moutinho, Ricardo; Carlos Paes de Almeida Filho, Jos̩ РMulticultural Education Review, 2015
In an increasingly multi-territorialized and interdependent world, people are getting more in touch with each other than ever before through many mass media services. This provides the possibility to overcome geographical boarders in order to build new relationships that foster mutual interests in economical and socio-cultural aspects from…
Descriptors: Language Role, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
The Role of Language for Thinking and Task Selection in EFL Learners' Oral Collocational Production
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Wang, Hung-Chun; Shih, Su-Chin – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
This study investigated how English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' types of language for thinking and types of oral elicitation tasks influence their lexical collocational errors in speech. Data were collected from 42 English majors in Taiwan using two instruments: (1) 3 oral elicitation tasks and (2) an inner speech questionnaire. The…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Error Patterns, Language Role, Foreign Countries