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Bell, Nancy; Skalicky, Stephen; Salsbury, Tom – Language Learning, 2014
Humor and language play have been recognized as important aspects of second language (L2) development. Qualitative studies that have documented the forms and functions of language play for adult and child L2 users have taken place largely in classroom settings. In order to gain a fuller understanding of such creative manipulations by L2 users, it…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Language Usage
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Baynham, Mike – Language and Education, 1996
Investigates the role of language in adult numeracy classrooms, utilizing the resources of systemic functional linguistics and constructs derived from conversational analysis and ethnomethodology to examine how these classrooms are constructed in discourse. The study characterizes these classrooms as mixed-mode discourse sites and examines how…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Audiotape Recordings, Classroom Techniques, Discourse Analysis