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McCarthy, Michael; Hughes, Rebecca – TESOL Quarterly, 1998
Argues that there are very good reasons for developing discourse grammars for second-language (L2) teaching. Exemplifies the criteria for moving from sentence-based grammar to the discourse level. The criteria are based on pedagogical and descriptive problems in grammar that sentence-based approaches cannot adequately deal with. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Grammar, Linguistic Theory
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Nero, Shondel J. – TESOL Quarterly, 1997
Analyzed the spoken and written language of Caribbean college students who consider themselves to be native speakers of English. Discusses the students' linguistic self-perception as well as the morphosyntactic and discourse features that emerge when they write in standard English. The study suggests that anglophone Caribbean students should be…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, English, Higher Education
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Dolly, Martha R. – TESOL Quarterly, 1990
Analysis of adult English-as-a-Second-Language students' dialogue journal communication with their native speaking teacher found that 5 of the 12 conversations analyzed were reciprocal in most of the "move" (sharing of information or opinions unknown by the other) categories, but only 4 were reciprocal in initiating solicits, and only 1 extended…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Dialog Journals, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Lam, Wan Shun Eva – TESOL Quarterly, 2000
This case study shows how an English-as-a-Second-Language teenager in the United States created literacy experiences for himself through involvement in various forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC) on the Internet. Analyzes the learner's information on textual identity through the theoretical constructs of voice, design, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Computer Mediated Communication, Discourse Analysis
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Hinkel, Eli – TESOL Quarterly, 1997
Analyzes essays and responses to cloze passages by second language learners to determine how speakers of various backgrounds establish a past-time discourse frame. Argues that speakers of Chinese, Korean, Indonesian, and Japanese may conceptualize time domains differently from English speakers and that students must learn that objective time and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cloze Procedure, College Students, Concept Formation
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Angelil-Carter, Shelley – TESOL Quarterly, 1997
Argues that acquisition of English-as-a-Second-Language research must take into account social context and power relations in order to explain language learning processes. Uses interview data and writing samples to demonstrate how a student in South Africa is influenced in his written discourse in English by his power relations and experience as a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Context Effect, Data Analysis
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Brown, Gillian – TESOL Quarterly, 1978
Understanding spontaneous speech is a very difficult task for many foreign students. They must be taught to use all the ethnographic cues available to enable them to predict the likely content of a text. They must predict not only the factual content of spoken language but also the interactional structuring. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Training, Aural Learning