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Flint, Patricia; Dollar, Tamra; Stewart, Mary Amanda – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2019
Adolescents who are newcomers in a country and beginning to acquire English as an additional language are often in secondary classrooms with teachers who do not speak their languages. Due to these communication obstacles, there is a great need for teachers to build relationships with their students while setting optimal conditions for literacy…
Descriptors: Barriers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nguyen, Duyen T.; Fussell, Susan R. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2015
We report a study that uses retrospective analysis to understand the relationships between American and Chinese participants' utterances during a conversation and the moment-by-moment feelings and reactions they subsequently described. Intercultural and intracultural pairs of Chinese and American participants talked about a fictional crime story…
Descriptors: Asians, North Americans, Discourse Analysis, Correlation
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Rosborough, Alessandro – Journal of Pedagogy, 2014
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the mediational role of gesture and body movement/positioning between a teacher and an English language learner in a second-grade classroom. Responding to Thibault's (2011) call for understanding language through whole-body sense making, aspects of gesture and body positioning were analyzed for…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Sociocultural Patterns, Second Language Learning, Role