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Barrett, Martyn; Byram, Michael – Intercultural Communication Education, 2020
In a recent paper, Simpson and Dervin (2019a) offer a radical critique of the Council of Europe's "Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture" (RFCDC). However, Simpson and Dervin's paper contains numerous factual errors, interpretative errors and category errors in its description of the RFCDC. We identify 12 such errors…
Descriptors: Criticism, Guidelines, Error Patterns, Misconceptions
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Rassaei, Ehsan – Language Learning Journal, 2019
The current study investigates the effects of dynamic and non-dynamic oral corrective feedback in response to learners' errors on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' English wh-question development over three treatment sessions. Sixty-eight EFL learners were assigned randomly to one of two experimental conditions that received either…
Descriptors: Error Correction, English (Second Language), Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Learning
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Shirazi, Masoumeh A.; Mousavi Nadoushani, Seyed Mohammad – SAGE Open, 2017
This study is an endeavor to find how English native and nonnative EFL/ESL (English as foreign language/English as second language) writers use adversative conjunctions to connect ideas together so that texts have both coherence and cohesion. Regarding the problems nonnative writers of EFL face when composing a piece of writing, we attempted a…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Research Reports, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Benjamin, Trevor; Walker, Traci – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
This article examines one of the ways in which matters of truth, appropriateness, and acceptability are raised and managed within the course of everyday conversation. Using the methodology of conversation analysis, we show that by repeating what another participant has said and doing so with a high rise-fall intonation contour, a speaker claims…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Repetition
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Pelletier, Caroline; Kneebone, Roger – Ethnography and Education, 2016
"Human factors" is an influential rationale in the UK national health service to understand mistakes, risk and safety. Although there have been studies examining its implications in workplaces, there has been little investigation of how it is taught, as a form of professional morality. This article draws on an observational study of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Error Patterns, Error Correction, Ethics
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Kung, Shiao-Chuan – ELT Journal, 2004
This paper describes a project involving EFL learners in synchronous electronic discussions. The output of the students' interactions was analyzed qualitatively to uncover the main linguistic and interactional features. It was observed that the students' discussions contained a large number of spelling, usage, and grammatical errors, an almost…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Instruction, Second Language Instruction
Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (Singapore). Regional Language Centre. – 1992
The 12 issues of the second language teaching and research journal, spanning 1988-1993 contain articles on a variety of language teaching and learning issues. A substantial proportion concern English-as-a-Second-Language instruction, both general and academic, in a number of Southeast Asian cultural contexts. Regional variations of English are…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis