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Cekaite, Asta – Applied Linguistics, 2009
This paper explores L2 novices' ways of soliciting teacher attention, more specifically, their summonses. The data are based on detailed analyses of video recordings in a Swedish language immersion classroom. The analyses illuminate the lexical shape of summonses in conjunction with prosody, body posture, gestures, and classroom artefacts. As…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Immersion Programs, Swedish
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Boers, Frank – Applied Linguistics, 2000
Reports three English-as-a-foreign-language experiments that indicate that a lexical organization along metaphoric themes or source domains can facilitate retention of unfamiliar figurative expressions. Proposes classroom activities aimed at enhancing language learners' metaphor awareness and at turning this into an additional channel for…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English (Second Language), Metaphors, Retention (Psychology)
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Pica, Teresa – Applied Linguistics, 1987
Data are presented to illustrate how confirmation and comprehension checks and clarification requests develops second-language skills (comprehension and production). Absence of these interactional features in the classroom reflects the unequal participant relationships which are shaped by classroom activities. Two activities (in appendix) were…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses
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Harley, Birgit – Applied Linguistics, 1989
Study of the effects of a functional approach to grammar teaching on a sixth-grade French immersion class found that those subjects exposed to an experimental set of teaching materials outperformed control subjects at the end of eight weeks. There were no significant differences between the groups after three months. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, French, Grade 6
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Foster, Pauline; Ohta, Amy Snyder – Applied Linguistics, 2005
This paper investigates the value of language classroom negotiation of meaning from both cognitive and sociocultural perspectives. According to Long (1985, 1996) comprehensible input gained through interactional adjustments such as negotiating meaning and modifying output is central to second language acquisition, and much research has been…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Interaction, Linguistic Input, Communication Problems
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Harwood, Nigel – Applied Linguistics, 2005
This paper is a qualitative and quantitative corpus-based study of how academic writers use the personal pronouns I and inclusive and exclusive we. Using a multidisciplinary corpus comprising of journal research articles (RAs) from the fields of Business and Management, Computing Science, Economics, and Physics, I present data extracts which…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Textbooks, Physics, Learning Activities