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Direct linkYeh, Meng; Hsu, Wei-li – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
This study investigates the effect of an instructional design for medical Chinese, which incorporates research findings from Conversation Analysis (CA) and uses authentic doctor-patient consultations in primary-care visits as teaching materials. The goal of the instruction is to develop students' interpersonal communicative competence in medical…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Physician Patient Relationship, Primary Health Care, Instructional Design
Al-Gahtani, Saad – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
This study explored the development of L2 learners' interactional competence in Arabic when making requests. Combining a longitudinal and cross-sectional design, it closely examined how learners' language proficiency affected their use of multiple requests in daily-life interactions. Participants included L2 learners (n = 40) and Saudi Arabic…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Su, Yunwen; Ren, Wei – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
The present study explored the development of second language (L2) Chinese learners' ability to negotiate requests in interactions. It investigated the effect of proficiency on learners' use of request strategies and internal modifications and on their sequential realization of requests in L2 Chinese. Twenty-four American English learners of L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese, Pragmatics, Language Proficiency
Clark, Allen; Minami, Nathan – Foreign Language Annals, 2015
This article discusses five college students' experiences in a simulated full-immersion, Arabic-speaking language village and the impact of that experience on learners' beliefs about the power of collaborative learning, the critical importance of cultural awareness, the efficacy of learning languages within a functioning community of practice, and…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Study Abroad
Bataller, Rebeca – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
This study addresses the development of the request strategies used in two service encounter scenarios by 31 nonnative speakers of Spanish spending 4 months living and studying in Valencia, Spain. The main method of data collection was an open role-play in which participants interacted with a Spanish native speaker. Results show that while there…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Foreign Countries, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedHaggstrom, Margaret – Foreign Language Annals, 1994
Provides an overview of the most widely used methods of classroom oral testing, as well as evaluations of their practicality and conformity to the goals of communicative teaching and testing. Also described are ways the video camera and task-based activities have successfully been used to make oral testing a more realistic communicative…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialogs (Language), Interviews, Language Laboratories
