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Kotilainen, Lari; Kurhila, Salla – Modern Language Journal, 2020
This article explores language learning as the speakers' microlongitudinal project in interaction. Using conversation analysis (CA) as a method, we present a single-case analysis on how a change occurs in the linguistic repertoire of 2 learners of Finnish. We discuss the challenges that the temporal aspect in learning poses within CA, such as the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Longitudinal Studies
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Yang, Xueyan; Tao, Xin – Modern Language Journal, 2018
This case study compares the discourse behaviors of 2 Chinese teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), one rated high and one rated low by their respective students. The teachers were each audio-recorded for a total of 100 minutes during the 'text session' of an Intensive Reading course. Drawing on Yang's (2010) model of EFL classroom…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Classroom Communication
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Lazaraton, Anne; Ishihara, Noriko – Modern Language Journal, 2005
Research on second/foreign language teacher impressions, reflections, and beliefs continues to illuminate various facets of language teacher knowledge and practice, but it has only recently begun to question the relationship between these teacher characteristics and actual classroom discourse. This collaborative case study undertaken by a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Research Methodology, Interaction, Language Teachers
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Gebhard, Meg – Modern Language Journal, 2004
This 2-year qualitative study explores the ironies of educational reform in the United States as experienced by three second language learners attending a school attempting to transform itself into a high-performance elementary school in California's Silicon Valley. Drawing on the concept of fast capitalism in a globalized economic work order…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Economic Change, Discourse Analysis, Criticism
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Liskin-Gasparro, Judith E. – Modern Language Journal, 1996
Analyzes the narrative, descriptive, and evaluative structures of one person's two stories, drawn from oral proficiency interviews, about the same event told at the intermediate high and advanced levels on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) scale. The discourse analysis revealed that the second story builds upon the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Context Effect, Discourse Analysis