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David Wei Dai – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2024
In the twenty-first-century working professionals need to possess strong Interactional Competence to handle professional communication in intercultural contexts (PCIC). However, the relationship among the three PCIC constituents -- culture, workplace and interaction -- is undertheorized in current research. This leaves PCIC practitioners…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Second Language Learning, Discourse Analysis
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Gayane Paul-Kirokosyants; Vladimir Vorobyov – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
We live in the age of globalization where diverse cultures and nations mix and mingle. A lot of us live in a multicultural society in which macro- and microethnoses coexist. Cultures enrich each other, collaborate…and sometimes clash. Misunderstandings happen when people speak the same language, but do not share the same cultural codes. Edward…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Cultural Pluralism
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Boudjemaa Dendenne – Migration and Language Education, 2022
We should seek every possible method for educating immigrants and refugees and facilitating ­communication for them--especially during the current difficult times due to the spread of a killer-­ pandemic (i.e., Covid-19). To this end, I discuss the role which "metalanguage" could play in this regard, with reference to Natural Semantic…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Refugees, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Tawfiq, Hatim Hassan; Abdelshafie, Abdelshafie Alrayeh – English Language Teaching, 2021
This paper examines the linguistic barriers that impede English language communicative proficiency of the students of English language in the college of sciences and humanity studies, Thadiq, Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia. The paper gives the specific linguistic problems that detain attaining a perfect English language communicative competence.…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Awang, Suryani; Hassan, Wan Nurhafiza Fatini Wan; Abdullah, Normah; Zakaria, Wan Nuur Fazliza Wan; Razak, Siti Shazlin – English Language Teaching, 2022
Communication strategies (CS) have been generally used to overcome oral communication problems in delivering the intended messages. While studies on CS mostly involved simulated communication contexts, the current study deviates from the past studies on CS by identifying the types of CS employed by candidates of real job interviews and examining…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hirata, Saki; Yamada, Masanori – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
Vocabulary learning that overlooks the discrimination of single sounds in English language learning could lead to communication difficulties, such as the inability to hear and speak English pronunciation. To address this issue, vocalization strategy, in which students listen to the sounds of words and memorize them aloud, is considered a useful…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Audio Equipment, Pronunciation, English (Second Language)
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Noviyenty, Leffi; Morganna, Ruly; Fakhruddin – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Regardless of varied lingua-cultural ideologies enriching the theories of communicative competence (CC), the four CC dimensions (e.g., linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse, and communication strategies (CSs)) still become the main cores of English speaking (ES) classrooms. Of the four dimensions, CSs seem to be the most technical which deserve…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Speech Communication, College Faculty, Learning Processes
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Donald, Shane – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2022
Drawing on Conversation Analysis, this paper investigates how an English native speaker interviewer utilizes clarification requests as a form of recipient design during an interview to resolve problems of non-understanding. This data is contrasted with interviews between English language learners at a private university in Taiwan. The findings…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Speech Acts
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Girault, Marie Conceptia; Corredor, David Alberto Rivera – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2019
This article discusses why pedagogical discourse analysis (PDA) can be seen as the departure point to teach through discourse and how language teachers can efficaciously use it in order to bring discourse analysis into the language classroom. To make PDA feasible in language teaching, it requires to be coordinated with actual discourse-based…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Student Projects, Active Learning, Teaching Methods
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Palomeque, Cristina; Pujolà, Joan-Tomàs – ReCALL, 2018
The study of multimodality in communication has attracted the attention of researchers studying online multimodal environments such as virtual worlds. Specifically, 3D virtual worlds have especially attracted the interest of educators and academics due to the multiplicity of verbal channels, which are often comprised of text and voice channels, as…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Matsumoto, Yumi – Modern Language Journal, 2019
This qualitative study examines moments in the multilingual classroom when materials become prominent in whole-class interactions. Despite the critical impact that materials can have on classroom discourse and learning/teaching, research on "actual usage" of materials in second language (L2) classroom interactions has been scarce…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Worksheets
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Shaaban, Sumer Salman Abou – English Language Teaching, 2020
This research was conducted to suggest a set of WhatsApp activities to enhance pedagogical knowledge and classroom practices that can be used in TEFL courses and to explore student-teachers' reflection towards the use of WhatsApp and the suggested activities. By reviewing related literature of using social networks and WhatsApp and though…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Hedlin, Maria – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
The purpose of the present study is to investigate how preschool teachers see their interaction with the home. The empirical material consists of semi-structured interviews with 30 qualified preschool teachers working in Swedish preschools. The informants describe how they promote cooperation and prevent conflict by clarifying that parents'…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship
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Lai, Yi-Ju – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
This paper examines the chronotopic nature of physics discourse and instructional practices that are mediated through the integration of disciplinary spatial repertoires and mathematical symbolic systems. The paper addresses how meanings are constructed during instruction between bilingual international teaching assistants (ITAs) and undergraduate…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Bilingualism
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Thuratham, Wadinlada – Journal of Educational Issues, 2022
To have necessary and ready skills for careers in the 21st century, students should be given awareness of the importance of English, not only in formal but also non-formal and informal education. However, students still lack English abilities, and their English communication skills are still in need of development. Thus, this study aims to analyse…
Descriptors: Informal Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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