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Henry, Alastair; Cliffordson, Christina – Applied Linguistics, 2017
English is today learnt in multitudes of settings worldwide, making it difficult to characterize relationships between motivation and context in generalized terms (Ushioda 2013). In settings where students have extensive encounters with English outside school, a reluctance to invest effort in formal learning has been observed. To investigate ways…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Informal Education
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Golato, Andrea – Applied Linguistics, 2003
Examined the differences between compliment responses collected with two different data collection procedures: naturally occurring data analyzed through conversation analytic methodology, and elicited data collected via a discourse completion task (DCT). The DCT was designed to evoke the same discourse context and preceding context observed in the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Discourse Analysis, German
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Johnston, Bill; Kasper, Gabriele; Ross, Steven – Applied Linguistics, 1998
A study in interlanguage pragmatics investigated the effect of three types of rejoinder (positive, negative, absent) on non-native informants' choices of strategies to perform complaints, requests, and apologies. Results show strategy choice differentially affected by rejoinder type, suggesting that findings from studies using different production…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Interlanguage, Language Patterns