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Ramezanzadeh, Akram; Rezaei, Saeed – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2019
This study sought to probe higher education English language professors' experiences in cultivating their learners' authenticity. Using Barnett's (2007) theory of authenticity as the conceptual framework, the researchers explored authenticity as an authentic voice rather than a feature in materials provided by native speakers. The data were…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Walters, F. Scott – Language Testing, 2007
Speech act theory-based, second language pragmatics testing (SLPT) poses problems for validation due to a lack of correspondence with empirical conversational data. Since conversation analysis (CA) provides a richer and more accurate account of language behavior, it may be preferred as a basis for SLPT development. However, applying CA methodology…
Descriptors: Inferences, Testing, Speech Acts, Language Tests