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Burch, Alfred R. – Language Learning, 2014
Research on second language (L2) communication strategies over the past three decades has concerned itself broadly with defining their usage in terms of planning and compensation, as well as with the use of taxonomies for coding different types of strategies. Taking a Conversation Analytic (CA) perspective, this article examines the fine-grained…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Second Language Learning, Japanese, Communication Strategies
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Donaldson, Bryan – Language Learning, 2012
This study examines aspects of the syntax-discourse interface in near-native French. Two cleft structures--"c'est" clefts and "avoir" clefts--are examined in experimental and spontaneous conversational data from 10 adult Anglophone learners of French and ten native speakers of French. "C'est" clefts mark focus, and…
Descriptors: Syntax, Native Speakers, French, Discourse Analysis
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Day, Richard R.; And Others – Language Learning, 1984
Presents the results of an investigation into how native speakers of English provide corrective feedback to errors in conversation with their nonnative speaker friends. Native speakers responded to errors by using either on-record or off-record corrective feedback and several noncorrective discourse devices to repair conversational difficulties.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Higher Education
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Kasper, Gabriele – Language Learning, 1984
Reports on a study of language learners' comprehension of speech acts and discourse functions, referred to as pragmatic comprehension. Analyzes two types of learners' pragmatic misunderstandings: their failure to distinguish between phatic talk and referential talk, and their failure to identify the intended illocutionary force of indirect speech…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Listening Comprehension, Native Speakers
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Derwing, Tracey M. – Language Learning, 1989
A native speaker-nonnative speaker conversational adjustment in the relative proportions of information type was examined for its relation to communicative success. Analyses indicated that an increase in the proportion of background detail correlated with comprehension problems for second-language learners. (22 references) (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adults, Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Rost, Michael; Ross, Steven – Language Learning, 1991
Reports on a two-phase study of second-language learner use of listener feedback, particularly their use of clarification questions in native speaker-nonnative speaker discourse. (29 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Feedback, Interaction
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Banerjee, Janet; Carrell, Patricia L. – Language Learning, 1988
An English discourse completion questionnaire consisting of 60 situations designed to elicit suggestions in English was administered to 28 native speakers of Chinese or Malay and to 12 native speakers of American English. Non-native speakers of English were more direct in their responses. Native and non-native speakers significantly differed in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Higher Education
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Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen; Hartford, Beverly S. – Language Learning, 1990
Examines status in institutional discourse and identifies congruence as a factor in the success of native and nonnative speakers. Nonnative speakers suffered from a lack of context-specific pragmatic competence involving the use of status preserving strategies and appropriate content for noncongruent speech acts. (21 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis