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Han, Yiting; Smith, Blaine E. – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
Internet memes--usually taking the form of an image, GIF, or video with text--have become an important type of semiotic tool for meaning making. Due to the fact that memes can help learners leverage semiotic modes in social contexts, they hold great potential for language education. Integrating ecological social semiotic frameworks, this…
Descriptors: Internet, Cartoons, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Koç, Tuncay – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2023
Using Conversation Analysis, this article explores the ways in which teasing is employed as an interactional tool to respond to learner-initiated departures in videotaped adult English as Foreign Language classrooms. The analysis focuses on the moments of classroom interaction where student contributions and behaviours initiate shifts from the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Student Behavior
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Nimet Çopur; Adam Brandt – Classroom Discourse, 2024
The interactional roles of smile and laughter have been widely explored in both institutional settings and mundane talk (e.g. Holt 2016; Potter and Hepburn 2010). However, the role of one specific kind of smile, what we call a 'squeezed-mouth smile' (SMS), remains unexamined. Using CA, this study explores one teacher's use of SMS in response to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Nonverbal Communication, Humor
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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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Schwabe, Claudia – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2021
German fairy tales have an established history of appropriation in popular media, from oral traditions to mobile media. The mimetic quality of fairy-tale motifs and tropes provides ideal conditions for intertextual adaptation. In this article, I demonstrate that German fairy-tale themed music videos are powerful vehicles for culture, parody, and…
Descriptors: German, Fairy Tales, Music, Video Technology
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Gonulal, Talip – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Intelligent personal assistants (IPAs), which are voice-activated agents enabling human--computer interaction, have recently been reported to be pedagogically useful agents in language learning. IPAs use various forms of humor to better communicate with users and to compensate for any performance limitations. In order to understand the IPAs' sense…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Nguyen, Hanh; Chambers, Wendy; Abbott, Marilyn – TESL Canada Journal, 2022
Digital literacy skills are crucial twenty-first-century skills that are required for the successful use of technology and active engagement in today's world. However, there is a lack of effective resources and guidelines for developing English as a second language (ESL) learners' digital literacy skills. Due to their increasingly important and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Technological Literacy, Skill Development
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Najafi, Maryam; Shahrokhi, Mohsen; Shojaee, Maryam; Atharizadeh, Mahmood – International Journal of Language Education, 2021
This paper aimed at examining and comparing the effects of different humor-based strategies (joke, pun, and limerick) on vocabulary learning of EFL learners at intermediate and advanced levels. To this end, 120 EFL learners in a private institute were asked to serve as the participants of the study. They were then divided into two groups according…
Descriptors: Humor, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Reed, Emily – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
This article examines the acquisition of pragmatic competence in L2, applying this stimulating area of research to premodern texts in a way that has yet to be done (to the author's knowledge). Specifically, this article discusses the teaching of "challenging" incongruent speech behaviours (such as sarcasm, banter, and irony) in a group…
Descriptors: Humor, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Amar, Cheikhna; Nanbu, Zachary; Greer, Tim – Classroom Discourse, 2022
Based on interaction recorded in EFL classrooms, this study uses Conversation Analysis to document the post-first deployment of an absurd candidate formulation (ACF) to pursue recipient response at points of interactional delay. ACFs are a form of correction-invitation device in which the question initiator proffers a candidate response that is…
Descriptors: Humor, Political Attitudes, Discourse Analysis, Error Correction
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Hogan, Zoe; Campbell, Victoria – Teachers and Curriculum, 2022
Play is a universal human experience. Often regarded as the unique purview of children, an emerging body of research points to the importance of playfulness in adulthood. This article reports on the research and observations of two teaching artists working in Connected, a Sydney Theatre Company adult-literacy-through-drama programme. This article…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Adult Literacy, Drama, Creative Activities
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Looney, Stephen Daniel; He, Yingliang – Classroom Discourse, 2021
This paper investigates the use of laughter and smiling to manage (dis)affiliation during two types of disturbances in the interactional unfolding of classrooms: delayed and disaligning responses. The analysis reveals that the sequential position and embodied turn design are integral to understanding the (dis)affiliative work laughter and smiling…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Humor, Nonverbal Communication
Choe, Ann Tai; Nguyen, Hanh thi; Vicentini, Cristiane – TESOL in Context, 2022
Despite rising interests in the manifestations of second language (L2) interactional competence (IC) in online language learning activities (e.g., Balaman & Sert, 2017a, 2017b), participants' interactional practices for managing epistemic stances in online searches remains largely unexplored. This paper examines how an intermediate-level…
Descriptors: Online Searching, Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Wang, Jianli – Journal of Educational Issues, 2020
Student mobility across national borders has been increasing at an extraordinary pace. Correspondingly, much research has been conducted into issues concerning learners that move internationally to pursue learning in a culturally different country. To a great extent, vigorous debate and research did promote cross-cultural diversity, understanding…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Humor, Student Mobility, Cultural Differences
Vera E. W. Hanaoka – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation examines how L2 Japanese speaker international students experience their subjectivity (Harre & Gillett, 1994), that is, how their language use and actions convey their thoughts and feelings, their sense of self, and how they relate to the world around them, in casual conversations with L1 Japanese speaker peers. In order to…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Pragmatics, Japanese, Second Language Learning
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