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Exploring Trainer and Trainee Emotional Talk in Narratives about Workplace-Based Feedback Processes
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Dennis, A. A.; Foy, M. J.; Monrouxe, L. V.; Rees, C. E. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2018
Emotion characterises learners' feedback experiences. While the failure-to-fail literature suggests that emotion may be important, little is known about the role of emotion for educators. Secondary analyses were therefore conducted on data exploring 110 trainers' and trainees' feedback experiences. Group and individual narrative interviews were…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Feedback (Response), Interviews, Foreign Countries
"You Need Help as Usual, Do You?": Joking and Swearing for Collegiality in a Swedish Workplace
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Nelson, Marie – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2014
This paper draws on the KINSA project (The Communicative Situation of Immigrants at Swedish Workplaces), which aimed to identify communicative factors that have a positive impact on the integration of second language speakers in the workplace and in their immediate work team. The focus here is on humour and swearing as strategies for doing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Work Environment, Metalinguistics
Rethinking Discourses of Diversity: A Critical Discourse Study of Language Ideologies and Identity Negotiation in a University ESL Classroom
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Kim, Jung Sook – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Diversity is valued and promoted in contemporary public discourse, but on the other hand, there is a strong tendency to homogenize differences in society. The tension between diversity and homogeneity is palpable on U.S. college campuses as the number of international students has been ever-increasing. A more nuanced approach is needed to grapple…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
A Writing Collaborative: Shaping Secondary English Teachers' Identities as Writers within a Community of Practice
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Ormond, Allison Huffman – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Important to issues of writing instruction are the ways in which teachers, specifically those who teach in the discipline of language arts and English, understand and see themselves as writers. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how secondary English teachers positioned themselves and were positioned by others as writers through…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Collaborative Writing, Video Technology, Interviews
Learning about and through Humor in the Second Language Classroom
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Bell, Nancy D. – Language Teaching Research, 2009
Humorous communication is extremely complex in both its forms and functions (e.g. Norrick, 1993; 2003). Much of the previous work that has put forth suggestions for incorporating humor into the language classroom (e.g. Trachtenberg, 1979; Deneire, 1995; Schmitz, 2002) has not examined these complexities in the detail necessary for the target…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Interviews, Second Language Learning, Discourse Analysis
L2 Learning as Social Practice Conversation-Analytic Perspectives
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Pallotti, Gabriele, Ed.; Wagner, Johannes, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2011
This volume collects empirical studies applying Conversation Analysis to situations where second, third and other additional languages are used. A number of different aspects are considered, including how linguistic systems develop over time through social interaction, how participants 'do' language learning and teaching in classroom and everyday…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics