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Teaching and Learning English in the Primary School: Interlanguage Pragmatics in the EFL Context. English Language Education. Volume 18
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Schauer, Gila A. – English Language Education, 2019
This book is the first comprehensive investigation of interlanguage pragmatic issues in a primary school context that is based on both primary school teachers' statements on their own teaching realities, views and preferences, and a thorough investigation of materials used by teachers and recommended by teacher educators in the state the primary…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Childrens Literature, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning
Making a Request for a Service in Spanish: Pragmatic Development in the Study Abroad Setting
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Bataller, Rebeca – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
This study addresses the development of the request strategies used in two service encounter scenarios by 31 nonnative speakers of Spanish spending 4 months living and studying in Valencia, Spain. The main method of data collection was an open role-play in which participants interacted with a Spanish native speaker. Results show that while there…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Second Language Acquisition Studies. Series on Issues in Second Language Research.
Bailey, Kathleen M., Ed.; And Others – 1983
This collection of 16 papers covers theoretical issues and research on interlanguage development and second language acquisition variables. Among the specific topics addressed are: morpheme group interactions, acquisition of complex sentences in English as a second language, uniformity in interlanguage development, Spanish-English basilang,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, English (Second Language), Immersion Programs, Interlanguage
Foreign Language Learning and Bilingualism. Publications of the Research Institute of the ABO Akademi Foundation NR 105.
Ringbom, Hakan, Ed. – 1985
This collection of six essays and one bibliography on second language learning includes: (1) "Transfer in Relation to Some Other Variables in L2-Learning" (Hakan Ringbom); (2) "Word Frequencies in Finnish and Finland-Swedish Learner Language" (Hakan Ringbom); (3) "The Influence of Swedish on the English of Finnish…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Finnish
Social and Cognitive Factors in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 1999 Second Language Research Forum.
Swierzbin, Bonnie, Ed.; Morris, Frank, Ed.; Anderson, Michael E., Ed.; Klee, Carol A., Ed.; Tarone, Elaine, Ed. – 2000
This edited volume includes the following chapters: "Three Kinds of Sociolinguistics and SLA: A Psycholinguistic Perspective" (Dennis R. Preston); "Getting Serious about Language Play: Language Play, Interlanguage Variation, and Second Language Acquisition" (Elaine Tarone); "Oppositional Talk and the Acquisition of Modality in L2 English" (Tom…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Grammar
Language, Culture and Cognition: A Collection of Studies in First and Second Language Acquisition. Multilingual Matters 69.
Malave, Lilliam M., Ed.; Duquette, Georges, Ed. – 1991
Papers on language processing, culture, and language learning and teaching include: "A Theory of Intelligence as Semiosis: With a Couple of Comments on Interlanguage Development" (John W. Oller, Jr.); "Along the Way: Interlanguage Systems in Second Language Acquisition" (Larry Selinker); "Strategy and Tactics in Second Language Acquisition"…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingualism, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes