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Koonnala, Pristsana; Chaiwong, Napasporn – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
This study examines the persuasive English language in MasterClass's video advertisements. An analysis framework was formed using twenty-four techniques to identify persuasive language, and the purposes of using different techniques in one hundred and forty-one MasterClass's video scripts. The analysis included identifying the primary argument of…
Descriptors: Advertising, Video Technology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Basol, Hasan Çaglar; Kartal, Galip – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
Discourse markers (DMs) are significant for fluent speech. Furthermore, they are essential elements of language for conversation organisation, reciprocal relation of interlocutors, productive speaking and comprehension. Although they have critical functions for pragmatic development, they are neglected in language teaching either because of the…
Descriptors: Films, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Zengin, Bugra – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2019
Although millions of EFL learners benefit from watching subtitled/captioned movies and TV shows in non-instructional settings, one almost untouched area is the development of strategies in benefiting from film scripts and their translated versions as well as audio language-subtitle combinations. This paper reports research subsequent to the…
Descriptors: Films, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Di Maio, Fabrizio – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This paper illustrates the use of two language-teaching and learning methods (process drama and theatre) in a class of Italian. Process drama is based on improvisation, over-identification, and dramatisation from a short set of coordinates that students can read just a few minutes before the activity that will be later performed in class (see…
Descriptors: Drama, Theater Arts, Italian, Second Language Learning
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Thomas, Rebecca S.; Waugh, Christian E. – Intercultural Education, 2020
This study examined the effects of a script-based communicative intervention (SBCI) on psychological and cultural adaptation in students studying abroad in second language (German and Spanish) contexts. Regardless of language proficiency, students with exposure to the SBCI, relative to those without the intervention, exhibited higher well-being…
Descriptors: Intervention, Study Abroad, German, Spanish