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Jiang, Michael Yi-Chao; Jong, Morris Siu-Yung; Lau, Wilfred Wing-Fat; Chai, Ching-Sing; Wu, Na – Educational Technology & Society, 2023
This study examined the effects of using automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology on Chinese students' willingness to communicate (WTC) in oral English and the development trajectories of their interactional features in a flipped EFL context. One hundred sixty undergraduates from a Chinese university participated in the 14-week…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Dopke, Susanne – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1986
Investigation of discourse structures in bilingual (German-English) families indicated that parents' discursive strategies were related to the children's acquisition of the minority language and that children were more likely to speak the minority language if the respective parent employed a more child-centered mode of interaction than the parent…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Communication (Thought Transfer), Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis
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Clennell, Charles – TESOL Journal, 1994
Focuses on strategies of second-language learners who communicate among themselves. Pairs of students were left alone in a room with a sound recorder and instructions to describe a specific object. The communication strategy they selected to describe an object with no common referent was to paraphrase the object's function. (11 references) (CK)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Classroom Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Data Collection
Jakobovits, Leon A.; Gordon, Barbara – 1974
This book deals with the pedagogical, personal, and theoretical contexts of foreign language teaching. Part 1, on the pedagogical context, discusses the psychology of language learning, individualized language instruction, new directions in language teaching, and the role of pattern drills in language teaching. Part 2, on the personal context,…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Improvement, Individualized Instruction
McCafferty, Steven G. – 2000
This paper investigates the potential relationship of Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) to gesture and second language learning. It is asserted that the ZPD is both a tool and a result, not a tool for result; it is both product and process at the same time. The process of learning a new language/culture in the case of a person who is…
Descriptors: Body Language, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes, Communication Research
Schwartz, Joan Lorraine – 1977
This study investigates the ways adult second language learners deal with errors and trouble sources in their conversations with one another. Specifically, it describes the repair work done by the second language learners, the extralinguistic features accompanying these repairs and the differences between repairs made by speakers at different…
Descriptors: Adults, Body Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis