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Pronunciation in EFL Textbooks Published by Turkish Ministry of National Education
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Topal, Ibrahim Halil – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
Even with recent emerging technologies, textbooks still maintain their significance in language education (Richards, 2015) in the form of digitized resources (i.e., e-teaching materials) (Li, 2021). However, one concern voiced over textbooks is their failure to include pronunciation (Nikolic, 2018). Pronunciation is significant for successful…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Textbooks, Pronunciation
Teaching Pronunciation, Revised Edition. ELT Development Series
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Murphy, John – TESOL Press, 2020
How would you begin to introduce ESL/EFL students to English vowel sounds? This Reflective Question and many others await your discussion and analysis in this revised edition of TESOL Press's best-selling "Teaching Pronunciation." This volume explores different approaches to teaching pronunciation in second language classrooms and…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Multimodal Differentiation for Allophone Pupils in First Language French Classroom
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Denizci, Can – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
Language classroom interactions can be characterized as multimodal, since teachers may resort to a variety of resources provided by their body or by their immediate space in order to convey meaning, manage activities and assess pupils' performances. Furthermore, teachers' multimodal practices constitute an essential component for the…
Descriptors: French, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Validating an L2 Academic Group Oral Assessment: Insights from a Spoken Learner Corpus
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Crosthwaite, Peter Robert; Raquel, Michelle – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2019
This study determines the fine-grained bottom-up linguistic features involved in successful second language (L2) English academic group oral tutorial discussion through the use of a spoken learner corpus composed of more than 20 hrs of L2 production. Student performances were graded by teacher-raters using a can-do rating scale, which assessed…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Patterns
Turn-Taking Organization for Korean Conversation: With a Conversation Analytic Proposal for the Research and Teaching of Korean Learners of English
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Park, Jae-Eun – ProQuest LLC, 2009
From a conversation analytic perspective, this dissertation investigates how talk-in-turns in conversation are constructed and organized in a way that minimizes gaps and overlaps between speakers. Based on an informed assumption that turns are built out of turn units that allow the projection of their possible end points, I first characterize…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Interpersonal Communication, Discourse Analysis
Variability in Conversation Management: Fragmentation of Discourse and Back-Channel Expressions in Japanese and English.
Maynard, Senko K. – 1986
The casual conversation of six pairs of Japanese and six pairs of American colleges students was analyzed for evidence of two related aspects of conversation management: the linguistic characteristics of utterance units and back-channel strategies. Utterance units are defined as those occurring between identifiable pauses or breaks in tempo.…
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, English