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Sabrina Xiaoyan Liu – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative narrative research investigated successful cases of international students who actively verbally participate and speak up during academic or coursework discussions in the classrooms. More specifically, the aim of this narrative inquiry was to capture the lived and living experiences of English language learners (ELLs) navigating…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Verbal Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Zhu, Hua; Li, Wei; Jankowicz-Pytel, Daria – Applied Linguistics, 2020
This article explores language learning as a process of translanguaging and of cultural translation. We draw examples from a sociolinguistic ethnography of translanguaging practices in a karate club in east London, UK. Formulaic Japanese is taught as part of karate techniques, practised as the language of performance and rituals and valued as the…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Clubs, Physical Activities, Foreign Countries
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Huang, Alan – Language Awareness, 2020
Adopting a broader dialogical conceptual lens on interactive listening, this study examines advanced adult learners' language use and thought processes during a problem-solving task. Twenty English as a second language (L2) students from a Scottish university participated in the study. They worked in pairs on the task before taking part in…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Listening Comprehension, Problem Solving, English (Second Language)
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Almér, Elin – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
The aim of this article is to describe young children's beliefs about language and bilingualism as they are expressed in verbal utterances. The data is from Swedish-medium preschool units in three different sites in Finland. It was generated through ethnographic observations and recordings of the author's interactions with the children. The…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Usage, Swedish, Language of Instruction
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Jauregi, Kristi; Canto, Silvia; de Graaff, Rick; Koenraad, Ton; Moonen, Machteld – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2011
Within a European project on Networked Interaction in Foreign Language Acquisition and Research (NIFLAR), "Second Life" was used as a 3D virtual world in which language students can communicate synchronously with native speakers in the target language, while undertaking action together. For this context, a set of design principles for…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Second Language Learning, Familiarity, Interpersonal Relationship
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Kramsch, Claire J. – Theory into Practice, 1987
Described is foreign-language instruction which stresses the socialization aspect of language learning by focusing on the interactional processes through which language is learned and different patterns of thought are acquired. (MT)
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Language Skills, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Pica, Teresa – Language Learning, 1994
Reviews research on the social interaction and negotiation of second language (L2) learners and their interlocutors. This research illustrates ways in which negotiation contributes to conditions, processes, and outcomes of L2 learning by facilitating learners' comprehension and structural segmentation of L2 input, access to lexical form and…
Descriptors: Interaction, Interpersonal Relationship, Language Research, Language Usage