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Jawhar, Sabria Salama – Arab World English Journal, 2018
The recent decades have witnessed a remarkable increase in the body of research that examine the relationship between humour and language acquisition. This study, however, uses the microanalytical approach of Conversation Analysis (CA) to investigate the impact of the teachers' competent use of the first language (L1) as a source of humour on…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Native Language, Humor, Interaction
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Lee-Johnson, Yin Lam – International Journal of Instruction, 2016
The KSA has become a popular country for Americans to work as an EFL teacher in the recent years because of the payment and cultural experience (Hastings, 2012). Due to the wide social distance between the KSA and USA, the teachers had to adapt to the expectation and become legitimate participants (Lave and Wenger, 1991) in the local communities.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers