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Ning Zhu; Ruth Filik – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
We investigated the effect of culture and social status on sarcasm interpretation. Two hundred U.K. participants and 200 Chinese participants read scenarios in which the final comment could be either literal or sarcastic criticism and the speaker had equal, higher, or lower social status compared to the recipient. Comments were rated on degree of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Social Status, Negative Attitudes
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Jean-Marc Dewaele; Kazuya Saito; Florentina Halimi – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The current study investigates how foreign language enjoyment (FLE), foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) and attitude/motivation (AM) of 360 learners of English, German, French and Spanish in a Kuwaiti university was shaped over the course of one semester by three teacher behaviours: frequency of using the foreign language (FL) in class,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Anxiety, English (Second Language)
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Siriprapa Srithep; Patharaorn Patharakorn – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2024
Through the lens of conversational analysis (CA), humor or funniness is not an inherent property of a message, nor an internal state of any social action, but as something interactionally achieved (Glenn, 2003). Teachers are often encouraged to utilize humor to reduce anxiety, lower affective filters, and make language more "memorable"…
Descriptors: College Students, English Language Learners, Humor, Role Playing
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Waleed Nureldeen; Hala Alsabatin; Remon Eskander; Waleed Nasr – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
Expressing emotions in a narrative requires a high degree of narrators' involvement in and reflection of personal experiences. An array of complex emotions is reflected in the narrators' use of a wide range of language and paralanguage tools when they share their feelings with their audience. This study attempted to investigate how female…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Personal Narratives, Females, Phrase Structure
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Stojanovic, Maja; Robinson, Petra Alaine – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to present the experiences, beliefs and perceptions of international faculty at a Research 1 institution in the Southern US regarding the perceived differences between their and their students' and colleagues' cultures and first languages. Design/methodology/approach: Face-to-face interviews were conducted with four…
Descriptors: Foreign Nationals, College Faculty, Intercultural Communication, Foreign Countries
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Xiao Zhang; Christiane Lütge; Lili Zou – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Although there is a body of research on the teacher first language (L1) use in English-medium-instruction (EMI) classrooms, very little research has probed into how international students perceive local teacher L1 use and their learning practices in the English as a lingua franca (ELF) context. To address the gap, the present case study explored a…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, German
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Skalicky, Stephen; Crossley, Scott A. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
Previous investigations of satire posit that satire comprehension is influenced by prior knowledge, satirical strategies, and other demographic features, such as age. However, these claims have not yet been tested using online processing techniques. In this study we investigate satire processing using newspaper headlines from the satirical…
Descriptors: Satire, Newspapers, Journalism, Humor
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Chandras, Jessica – Language and Education, 2022
In classrooms in India where the instructional language is to be English, speakers use reported speech in Indian regional languages for pedagogical purposes, renegotiating the roles and statuses among languages in the multilingual setting. Reported speech is a form of indirect speech used when a speaker quotes another in a way that they voice the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Filipi, Anna; Chuang, Mu-Sen Kevin – Classroom Discourse, 2023
This study explored the language practices of a small group of international Chinese students in an anglophone Higher Education context where English was the medium of instruction. The context was the first year of an early childhood education course at an Australian university. Building on findings from research in conversation analysis on…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Native Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Hsu, Jeremy L.; Goldsmith, Gregory R. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2021
While student stress and anxiety are frequently cited as having negative effects on students' academic performance, the role that instructors can play in mitigating these challenges is often underappreciated. We provide summaries of different evidence-based strategies, ranging from changes in instructional strategies to specific classroom…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Stress Variables, Stress Management, Anxiety
Anahit Ani Yeghyayan – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Given the loss of heritage languages due to assimilation of the dominant English language in U.S. society within three generations of migration to the U.S. (Wiley & Valdes, 2000), it is of paramount importance to examine how we can maintain and enhance heritage languages. Humor is a pragmatic tool which one can utilize to increase…
Descriptors: Humor, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Heritage Education
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Solhi Andarab, Mehdi; Mutlu, Aynur Kesen – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019
Humor has often been seen as an important element in the learning process, facilitating both teaching and learning. Nevertheless, the utilization of humor in the educational setting has had its opponents. In recent years, many attempts have been made to conceptualize the various forms of humor implemented in the practice of education. Despite a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Humor, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Salem, Essa; Jarrah, Marwan; Alrashdan, Imran – SAGE Open, 2020
The present study examines the use of English lexical insertions to create humor by Jordanian university students. The data of the study are collected from spontaneous tape-recorded conversations from 62 participants of both males and females, representing different age groups (from 18-23 years old) and belonging to different specializations…
Descriptors: Humor, Language Usage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Gach, Nataliia – Issues in Educational Research, 2020
This research focuses on revealing the role of culture of education in shaping students' and teachers' attitudes to the learning process, which is largely determined by the political and social context in which it takes place. This exploration of the cultural nature of autonomy of the Ukrainian university students majoring in translation from…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Political Influences
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Barthelemy, Ramón S.; McCormick, Melinda; Henderson, Charles – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
Sexism occurs when men are believed to be superior to women, and is thought to be one of the reasons for women's underrepresentation in physics and astronomy. The issue of sexism in physics and astronomy has not been thoroughly explored in the physics education literature and there is currently no clear language for discussing sexism in the field.…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Disproportionate Representation, Females, Physics
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