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Peer reviewedvon Raffler-Engel, Walburga – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1980
Discusses the importance of the nonverbal component in second language learning, and describes research on the role of kinesics in language. (AM)
Descriptors: Body Language, Language Instruction, Language Research, Nonverbal Communication
Schwartz, Joan – 1977
Conversations between adult students of English as a second language were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed in order to establish principles of extralinguistic conversational repair technique among second language learners. A variety of gestural and kinesic features were discovered; these are described in detail and their use is contextualized…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Body Language, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Riley, P. – 1979
In order to answer the question as to what can be done with video that cannot be done with sound-only recordings, the role of the visual channel of communication in interaction is examined. This examination is based on the experience of foreign language teachers who have been using video in the classroom for five years. The point is made that in…
Descriptors: Body Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Media, Elementary Secondary Education
Green, Jerald R. – 1968
Intended for the nonnative, audiolingual-oriented Spanish teacher, this guide discusses the role of nonverbal behavior in foreign language learning with major emphasis given to an inventory of peninsular Spanish gesture. Gestures are described in narrative with line drawings to provide visual cues, and are accompanied by illustrative selections…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context, Cultural Education, Cultural Traits
Download full textDressler, [W. U.] – 1972
Pragmalinguistics, combining knowledge of linguistics and civilization, is a field under development within the realm of applied linguistics. It is concerned with the pragmatism of speech acts, which calls for knowledge of the relation between one linguistic element and the persons producing, using, and receiving it during the communicative…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Body Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Analysis
Zierer, Ernesto, Ed. – 1977
This issue contains two articles in Spanish and three in English on the following topics: the practical presentation of English for Special Purposes (ESP) materials in science programs at the National University of Trujillo, "notional syllabus" and "discourse analysis" in relation to ESP materials, extra-linguistic principles in explaining…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Curriculum Guides, Dialect Studies, Dialects
Schwartz, Joan Lorraine – 1977
This study investigates the ways adult second language learners deal with errors and trouble sources in their conversations with one another. Specifically, it describes the repair work done by the second language learners, the extralinguistic features accompanying these repairs and the differences between repairs made by speakers at different…
Descriptors: Adults, Body Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis
