This paper explores the interactions of a groupwork team composed of both local and exchange students, with heterogeneous competence in English, in an English-medium CLIL context at a technical university in Catalonia. Plurilingual and multimodal conversation analysis is used to trace how the students jointly complete an academic task. The…

Description of a course at the University of California at Los Angeles. (RD)

This case study compared the performance of teaching assistants (TAs) who were native speakers and nonnative speakers (NNS) of English during office hour consultations with undergraduates. Three nonnative- and two native-speaking TAs in the economics department of a major American university were videotaped during office hour consultations. The…

Describes some features of French business correspondence that contrast sharply with that of the American equivalent. Provides a sample syllabus for a commercial French course and lists sample vocabulary and phrases useful in business correspondence. (LMO)