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Zoe Gavriilidou; Lydia Mitits; Karen Chanagkian – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The purpose of this corpus-based study is a bottom-up investigation of strategic devices used by heritage language speakers (HLSs) during narration and conversation. It offers a critical review of compensation/communication strategy definitions and classifications, and presents the results of an investigation into strategies employed by an…
Descriptors: Native Language, Narration, Interpersonal Communication, Greek
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Canagarajah, Suresh – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021
This article takes the inquiry into semiotic repertoires beyond their classifications and inventories to analyse their interactions with each other and the way they gain indexicality in situated communication. As previous theorisation suggests that semiotic repertoires are deployed by agentive individuals, this article draws from New Materialism…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Interaction Process Analysis, Semiotics
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Hu, Chunyu; Li, Yuanyuan – Higher Education Studies, 2015
Discourse connectives (DCs) are multi-functional devices used to connect discourse segments and fulfill interpersonal levels of discourse. This study investigates the use of selected 80 DCs within 11 categories in the argumentative essays produced by L1 and L2 university students. The analysis is based on the International Corpus Network of Asian…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lázaro, Amparo; Azpilicueta-Martinez, Raúl – International Journal of English Studies, 2015
Numerous studies hold that interaction has beneficial effects on second language acquisition among adults and children in second language contexts. However, data from children learning English as a foreign language are still unavailable. In order to fill this research niche, this study examines the conversational interactions of 8 pairs of young…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Interaction Process Analysis, Communication Strategies
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Lucero, Edgar – HOW, 2011
This article focuses on the learner's use of Code-switching to learn the TL (Target Language) equivalent of an L1 word. The interactional pattern that this situation creates defines the Request-Provision-Acknowledgement (RPA) sequence. The article explains each of the turns of the sequence under the combination of the Ethnomethodological…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis, Speech Acts, English (Second Language)
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Poreba, Janine – CATESOL Journal, 2010
Past studies in language teaching have addressed the issue of whether the benefits of formal instruction outweigh those of naturalistic instruction, or vice versa. This study examined 1 aspect of naturalistic instruction closely: the conversation partnership. There were 3 conversation partnerships (English/Mandarin, English/Arabic, and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Semitic Languages, Mandarin Chinese