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Direct linkGluhareva, Daria; Prieto, Pilar – Language Teaching Research, 2017
Recent research has shown that beat gestures (hand gestures that co-occur with speech in spontaneous discourse) are temporally integrated with prosodic prominence and that they help word memorization and discourse comprehension. However, little is known about the potential beneficial effects of beat gestures in second language (L2) pronunciation…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Yamada, Kyoko – Language Testing, 2009
Gist identification or coherent situation model construction performance is an important criterion not only in L1 and L2 reading comprehension assessment but also in every aspect of discourse processing. Whereas most previous L2 research has investigated schematic knowledge of readers about relations within a text, more recent studies have used…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Identification, Language Patterns, Second Language Learning
Wardell, David – 1990
Research suggests that culturally distinctive first-language rhetorical patterns influence second language composing skills. Frequently, however, these patterns have never been taught formally and are not refined, leaving first-language composing largely underdeveloped. Teaching second language learners to compose often requires attending to the…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Download full textMaddalena, Sean Romano – 2001
Could corpus analysis be used to solve some of the problems surrounding non-native speakers' understanding of seemingly synonymous words? This research is needed because there is no single universal unified lexical theory that can be applied to the study of semantics or of language as a whole. Instead, there are a variety of views than can be…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Componential Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Databases
Stierer, Barry, Ed.; Maybin, Janet, Ed. – 1994
Articles presented include: "Introducing the New Literacy" (John Willinsky); "The Emergence of Literacy" (Nigel Hall); "Media Education: The Limits of a Discourse" (David Buckingham); "Extracts from 'Thought and Language' and 'Mind in Society'" (L. S. Vygotsky); "From Communicating to Talking" (Jerome Bruner); "What Does It Mean To Be Bilingual?"…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Bilingualism, Child Language, Classroom Communication
PDF pending restorationMeara, Paul, Ed. – 1986
Selected papers from the annual meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics include the following: "The Scope of Applied Linguistics" (a brief introduction by Paul Meara); "Grading and Professionalism in ELT (English Language Teaching)" (Gillian Brown); "'The Arm of the Chair Is Where You Use For To Write': Developing Strategic…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Counselor Client Relationship, English (Second Language), Family Planning
Graddol, David, Ed.; Swann, Joan, Ed. – 1994
Papers from a British conference on applied linguistics address various aspects of evaluation and language. Articles include: "Grammar and Language Impairment: Clinical Linguistics as Applied Linguistics" (Paul Fletcher); "Putting Our Practice Into Theory" (Deborah Cameron); "Applied Linguistics as Evaluation of Theory and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Aphasia, Applied Linguistics, College Students
