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van der Rijst, R. M.; Visser-Wijnveen, G. J.; Verloop, N.; van Driel, J. H. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2014
A broad communicative repertoire can help university lecturers to motivate and engage diverse student populations. The aim of this study is to develop and explore the usefulness and validity of a tool to identify patterns in lecturers' verbal repertoire. Speech act theory is presented as a framework to study lecturers' verbal…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Academic Discourse, College Students, Student Motivation
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Luk, Jasmine – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2010
In recent years, the emphasis in second language (L2) oral proficiency assessment has shifted from linguistic accuracy to discourse strategies such as the ability to initiate, respond, and negotiate meaning. This has resulted in a growing interest in the discourse analysis of students' performance in different oral proficiency assessment formats.…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Second Language Learning, Discourse Analysis, Language Tests