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Kaanta, Leila; Jauni, Heidi; Leppanen, Sirpa; Peuronen, Saija; Paakkinen, Terhi – Modern Language Journal, 2013
In line with recent Conversation Analytic work on language learning as situated practice, this article investigates how interactants can create language learning opportunities for themselves and others in and through social interaction. The study shows how the participants of "Big Brother Finland," a reality TV show, whose main…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Ryshina-Pankova, Marianna – Modern Language Journal, 2010
Situated within the framework of the systemic-functional linguistics (Halliday, 1994) and language-based theory of learning (Halliday, 1993), this article examines a shift toward a more objectified and "scientific" representation of reality in texts written by foreign language (FL) learners at various levels of acquisition. It argues that…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Sentences, Nouns, Grammar
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Waring, Hansun Zhang – Modern Language Journal, 2008
Within the framework of sociocultural theory, learning is conceptualized as participation rather than acquisition (Donato, 2000). Given the governing metaphor of changing participation as learning (Young & Miller, 2004), an important contribution conversation analysis can make to the study of second language acquisition is to detail the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Figurative Language, English (Second Language)