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Hanyu Jia – Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 2023
To explore email request patterns in the institutional context of university settings, this study combines speech act research with conversation analysis methods to examine how native speakers of American English and native speakers of Chinese formulate email requests to faculty. 100 authentic email requests sent by Chinese and American students…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Speech Acts, Native Speakers, North American English
Tavarez Dacosta, Pedro; Reyes Arias, Fransheska – Online Submission, 2021
The present work is a historical/linguistic account of an unprecedented fact regarding the existence of two English Speaking Communities [British English and American English], in a country like the Dominican Republic, where Spanish is the official and most used language, to the extent of being considered a monolingual nation or country. It is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, North American English, English, World History
Barnes, Roslyn – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2021
The study reported here sought to gain insight into the experience of transition into teaching in an international Christian school that could inform the development of a pre-field orientation (PFO) programme for Australian Christian teachers. The experiences of five American teachers who had participated in a pre-field orientation programme was…
Descriptors: Christianity, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Orientation
Wu, Yi-ju – Language Learning & Technology, 2021
Adopting the approaches of "pattern hunting" and "pattern refining" (Kennedy & Miceli, 2001, 2010, 2017), this study investigates how seven freshman English students from Taiwan used the Corpus of Contemporary American English to discover collocation patterns for 30 near-synonymous change-of-state verbs and new ideas about…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Liontas, John I.; Bangun, Imelda V.; Li, Siying – Teaching English with Technology, 2023
This study investigated the efficacy of explicit lexical collocation instruction via the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). To improve competence in lexical collocation and writing performance and to examine whether collocational competence and writing performance have a linear interrelation, 16 international English for Academic…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Kang, Hyun-Sook; Ahn, So-Yeon – Language Awareness, 2019
This study explored Korean university students' beliefs and perspectives on different English varieties, and their transformation in learner perceptions with respect to English learning, diversity in the English language, and learning of different English varieties over the course of a semester. On two occasions, Korean university students (N =…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Alrefaee, Yasser; Al-Ghamdi, Naimah; Almansoob, Najeeb – Online Submission, 2019
The present paper attempts to study the realization of refusal responses to invitations and requests among Yemen EFL learners in equal, higher and lower social status. It also aims to find out the pragmatic failure resulted from negative pragmatic transfer. In order to do so, refusals of 40 Yemeni EFL (20 high and 20 low proficient) learners were…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Saleh Majed Al Abwaini – Journal of English as an International Language, 2015
This study aimed at investigating the problems that translators faced when subtitling cultural expressions from English into Arabic. To achieve this goal, the researchers selected a convenient sample comprising 40 graduate and 40 undergraduate students who were enrolled in the English language programs during the academic year 2012/2013 in…
Descriptors: Captions, Arabic, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Vo, Son Ca; Vo, Yen Thi Hoang; Vo, Quyen Thanh – TESL-EJ, 2014
The amount of second language (L2) use has significant influence on native speakers' comprehension of L2 learners' speech. Nonetheless, few empirical studies examine how differences in the amount of language use affect the intelligibility and comprehensibility of nonnative speakers' reading and spontaneous speech. This study aims to contribute to…
Descriptors: Language Usage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension
Simmons, Noreen; Johnston, Judith – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2007
Background: Speech-language pathologists often advise families about interaction patterns that will facilitate language learning. This advice is typically based on research with North American families of European heritage and may not be culturally suited for non-Western families. Aims: The goal of the project was to identify differences in the…
Descriptors: North Americans, Language Usage, Indians, Mothers
Christian, Donna – 1986
A directory of collections of audio recordings of varieties of American English spoken in North America and including English-based creoles contains information about collections of any size, classified according to the primary state in the U.S. represented by the speakers in the sample and cross-referenced when more than one state is represented…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Creoles, Dialects, Information Sources
Peterson, Joseph; Thundyil, Zacharias – 1971
This questionnaire presents about 450 phonological, lexical, and grammatical items that are used in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In composing the dialect survey, terms pertaining to climate, topography, and ethnic groups were taken into account, as were other words and phrases which might be used by Upper Peninsula native speakers. The survey…
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Dialects, Language Research, Language Usage
Eslamirasekh, Zohreh – 1993
This study compared patterns in the requests of native Persian-speakers (n=50) and native speakers of American English (n=52) under the same social constraints. Students were undergraduate students in their native countries. Data were gathered by controlled elicitation (open questionnaire) and coded for degree of directness. Results show the…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies
Nakajima, Yuko – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1997
A study investigated which experiences helped Japanese learners of English as a second language acquire native-like politeness strategies and how Japanese businessmen perceive the relationship between degrees of indirectness and politeness in Japanese and in English. Subjects were 22 adult males, including 17 native speakers of Japanese working…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Communication, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness