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Filliettaz, Laurent – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022
Becoming a professional worker involves a wide range of cognitive, social, and cultural processes that have received extensive attention over the past decades amongst various disciplines. It is also not external to language use and communication. Novices in any occupation have to learn technical terms and are expected to master specific discourse…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Novices, Work Environment, Discourse Modes
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Williams, Gwendolyn M.; Case, Rod E.; Reinhart, Erik D. – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2018
This article describes a narrative study exploring the challenges that international teaching assistants (ITAs) encounter when using humor in North American university classrooms. Twenty participants were recruited from twelve teaching fields. Each ITA participated in two interviews and a videotaped teaching observation. The participants talked…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Humor, Higher Education, Interviews
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Jwa, Soomin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Although significant attention has been devoted to the notion of facework and its functions, facework among L2 speakers, whose cultural backgrounds and language proficiencies vary, has remained unexplored. The present study attempts to explore situations of intercultural communication in which facework is used as a way to remedy moments of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Group Dynamics, Intercultural Communication, Humor
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Nelson, Marie – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2014
This paper draws on the KINSA project (The Communicative Situation of Immigrants at Swedish Workplaces), which aimed to identify communicative factors that have a positive impact on the integration of second language speakers in the workplace and in their immediate work team. The focus here is on humour and swearing as strategies for doing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Work Environment, Metalinguistics
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Civil, Marta; Hunter, Roberta – Intercultural Education, 2015
This article focuses on argumentation in mathematics classrooms in two different geographic contexts, the US and New Zealand. Drawing on data from a case with immigrant students (Pasifika) in NZ and a case with Mexican American students in the US, we argue for the need to study the concept of argumentation through a cultural and language lens. Our…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Mathematics Instruction, Cultural Background, Immigrants
Escalante, Lora Beth – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The study investigates how language is used among 17 children in a dual language classroom as they create academic-based one-act plays in conjunction with social studies instruction. Examining over 20 hours of video, the teacher researcher analyzes students' use of translanguaging during cooperative groupings in order to co-accomplish an…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Drama, Teaching Methods, Video Technology
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Lehtimaja, Inkeri – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2011
This article demonstrates, using conversation analysis, how students use address terms when reproaching the teacher. The data consist of videotaped lessons of Finnish as a second language in secondary school. The analyses show, first of all, that teacher-oriented address terms can be used separately as reproaches, in which case they are marked…
Descriptors: Cues, Interpersonal Communication, Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis