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Encouraging Learners' Conversational Participation: The Effect of Content Knowledge.

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Zuengler, Jane – Language Learning, 1993

The influence on interlocutors' relative content knowledge on conversational participation in interactions between native speakers (NSs) and nonnative speakers (NNSs) with limited oral skills is investigated. Results indicate that both NSs and NNSs appeared conversationally active, but there were different patterns of participation that could to…

Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Higher Education

End-User Searching Behavior in Information Retrieval: A Longitudinal Study.

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Yuan, Weijing – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1997

Describes a study that investigated the effects of end-user search experience on searching behavior in the use of an online information retrieval system by monitoring the QUICKLAW searches of University of Toronto law students over a one-year period. Highlights include hypothesis testing, error patterns, search speed, and attitudes. (Author/LRW)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries, Higher Education