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Shardakova, Maria – Modern Language Journal, 2016
Over the past decade, second language (L2) humor has attracted scholarly attention as both a means and a goal of L2 development. Much of this research, however, has focused on oral communication, whereas virtually no studies address humor as an aspect of reading comprehension. This exploratory study combines these two areas of inquiry, examining…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Russian, Reading Comprehension, Humor
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Greer, Tim, Ed.; Ishida, Midori, Ed.; Tateyama, Yumiko, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2017
In the research literature on interactional competence in talk among second language speakers and their coparticipants, this volume of "Pragmatics & Interaction" is the first to focus on interaction in Japanese. The chapters examine the use and development of interactional practices in a wide range of social settings, from everyday…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics