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Vocabulary Instruction in an L2 Culture Course: The Intersection of Classroom Discourse, Materials, and Instructor's Choices in Lexical Focus-on-Form Episodes
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Marcos Miguel, Nausica – Classroom Discourse, 2021
Content courses for modern language majors at United States universities are a teaching environment where limited research on second language (L2) vocabulary instruction has taken place. On the surface, it may seem that instructors do not plan vocabulary instruction. This study explores this assumption as well as the potential for learning of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Realism and Imagination in Child Foreign-Language Productions: Three Reasons for an Early Exit from the "Gold Standard" of Personal Experience
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Hong, Seongeun; Kellogg, David – Classroom Discourse, 2016
Teachers often assume that personal experience is a rich resource for classroom chat and a gold standard for meaningful exchange of information. But in this paper, we first present three kinds of reasons for suspecting that primary intersubjectivity--the "me and you" relationship in which personal experiences are directly exchanged…
Descriptors: Imagination, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Creativity