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Piazza, Giorgio; Martin, Clara D.; Kalashnikova, Marina – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This scoping review considers the acoustic features of a clear speech register directed to nonnative listeners known as foreigner-directed speech (FDS). We identify vowel hyperarticulation and low speech rate as the most representative acoustic features of FDS; other features, including wide pitch range and high intensity, are still under…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Speech Communication, Vowels, Articulation (Speech)
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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
Baxter, Robert Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2017
"Interactional competence" is a theoretical construct that has only recently been tested empirically. Speakers contribute to an interaction with their individual resources; however, interactional competence is co-constructed by all participants. Interactional competence can be observed in spoken interaction as speakers' combined ability…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Spanish, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis
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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
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Snape, Neal; Kupisch, Tanja – Second Language Research, 2010
An area of considerable interest in second language (L2) acquisition is the difficulties learners face with the acquisition of articles. This article examines the role of prosody in the acquisition of articles by an endstate L2 English speaker focusing on the free morphemes "the" and "a". In order to analyse the articles produced by a Turkish…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Nouns, Morphemes, Second Language Learning
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
Doushaq, Mufeeq – 1984
A discussion of points raised by Dell Hymes in his article "On Communicative Competence" leads to a proposal for a clearer and more comprehensive theory of communicative competence based on two models, a matrix of discourse analysis and a model of communication interaction. Pedagogical implications of the theory are considered, including the…
Descriptors: Body Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context