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Sato, Masatoshi; Storch, Neomy – Language Teaching Research, 2022
Researchers and teachers often invoke context to explain their particular research/teaching issues. However, definitions of context vary widely and the direct impact of the context is often unexplained. Based on research showing contextual differences in second language (L2) learner beliefs and interactional behaviors, the current project compared…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Negishi, Junko – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2010
This study attempted to investigate the characteristics of interaction dynamics in a group oral interaction carried out by Japanese learners of English. The relationship between the participants' language development and interactional management functions (IMFs) was also explored. Oral performance tests in a paired or a small group have recently…
Descriptors: Performance Tests, Interaction Process Analysis, Second Language Learning, Japanese
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Toohey, Kelleen – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Examines a kindergarten in which half the students are learning English as a second language. This ethnographic study describes communities in which two newcomer children participate peripherally; the identities, social practices, and resources available to newcomers; and the organization of each community's social structure, its power relations,…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, English (Second Language), Ethnography, Foreign Countries
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Hancock, Mark – TESOL Quarterly, 1997
Examines code switching occurring during group work in English-as-a-Second-Language classes in Spain in which the learners share a first language. Argues that the discourse produced in this context is layered as the participants oscillate between a literal (off-record) and a nonliteral (on-record) frame. Suggests that the significance of language…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Jacobs, George M.; Ball, Jessica – ELT Journal, 1996
Reports a study examining the use of group activities in 10 randomly selected English-language teaching coursebooks published since 1990. Results are discussed in light of theory and research on cooperative learning; task-based language teaching; and the roles of learners, teachers, and coursebooks. (26 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Accountability, Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language), Group Dynamics
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Poole, Deborah; Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1994
Contrasts teacher-student interactions in typical teacher-fronted second language classrooms with the organization of talk across a variety of alternate educational participant structures--a teacher-student conference, small group work, the making of a class video, and a problem-solving interaction in a computer lab--that deviate from the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Context Effect, Educational Environment, English (Second Language)