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Matthew M. Grondin; Michael I. Swart; Doy Kim; Kate Fu; Mitchell J. Nathan – Grantee Submission, 2024
Mechanical reasoning is crucial for many engineering fields, yet undergraduate engineering students struggle to understand discipline-specific formalisms from their courses that model mechanical concepts. The current investigation observed undergraduate engineering students' speech during mechanical reasoning and the benefits of attending to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Thinking Skills, Logical Thinking

Matthew M. Grondin; Michael I. Swart; Claire Huggett; Kate Fu; Mitchell J. Nathan – Grantee Submission, 2024
This full paper considers how collaborative discourse can reveal ways upper-class engineering students mechanically reason about engineering concepts. Argumentation and negotiation during collaborative, multimodal discourse using speech and gestures helps establish common ground between learners and fosters reflection on their conceptual…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Discourse Analysis, Speech Communication
Judit Kroo – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
This paper examines the ways in which the indexical meanings that attach to enregistered speaking styles are debated and contested in interaction by younger Japanese adults. Contested meanings include discourses of so-called "hyoojungo" 'Standard Japanese' and the speaking styles that are collectively described as 'Okinawan dialect',…
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Attitudes, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Styles
Yufan Zhao; Vahid Aryadoust – Language Testing, 2025
This study examined the semantic features of the simulated mini-lectures in the listening sections of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) and the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) based on automatized semantic analysis to explore the content validity of the two tests. Two study corpora were utilized, the IELTS…
Descriptors: Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Academic Language, Second Language Learning
Sasithorn Limgomolvilas – rEFLections, 2024
Creating its own learner corpus, this research proposed to analyze and classify the transition markers used in solo presentation by 30 Thai engineering students based on Hyland (2019)'s Marker Categorization in Textual Metadiscourse. This research also aimed to identify and compare the quantities of individual transition markers among three groups…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Oral Language
Anthony Pak-Hin Kong; Chester Yee-Nok Cheung; Cherie Wan-Yin Wong – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background and Objectives: Normative reference of the connected speech measures (both micro-structural and macro-structural) for descriptive discourse is fundamental to systematic discourse analysis because it provides an anchor for comparison. This study aims to establish a comprehensive normative reference for connected speech measures in…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Sino Tibetan Languages
American Psychological Association, 2024
This guide, developed by the American Psychological Association's Coalition for Psychology in Schools and Education and Ethics Committee is designed for educators and includes a self-assessment for students ages 12 to 18 to reflect on and improve their civil discourse skills. The tool targets five values related to civil discourse and their…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Discourse Analysis, Dialogs (Language), Interpersonal Communication
Lorenzo García-Amaya – Second Language Research, 2024
orInverse relations, or "trade-off effects," are a common outcome of interlanguage development: a learner may increase performance in one linguistic domain while simultaneously decreasing performance in another. In this study, we investigate the relationships between one aspect of fluency (pause usage) and two aspects of syntactic…
Descriptors: Spanish, Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Miaomiao Liu; Yixun Li; Yongqiang Su; Hong Li – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2024
Purpose: This study sought to 1) identify linguistic features important for Chinese text complexity with a theory-based and systematic approach, and 2) address how feature sets and algorithms affect the performance of Chinese text complexity models. Method: Texts from Chinese language arts textbooks from Grades 1 to 6 (N = 1,478) in Mainland China…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Textbooks, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence
Keyi Han – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
Pragmatic markers, such as "well," "you know," and "I mean," serve as discourse-pragmatic elements in spoken language, facilitating discourse management, stance marking, and interpersonal communication. This study examines the acquisition of pragmatic markers by second language (L2) learners through a corpus-based…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Barriers, Native Language, Pragmatics
Hao-Zhang Xiao – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This article discusses, from a sociocognitive perspective, the integration of usage-based linguistics (UBL) models in favor of conversation analysis (CA) for second language acquisition (SLA). On this basis, it presents a pedagogical approach, viz. role-based interaction analysis (RBIA) for foreign language learning (FLL), by scaffolding, tracking…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar
Jing Yan; Scott Grant; Hui Huang – Educational Technology & Society, 2025
Many studies have examined the factors that influence second language interaction, such as task type and communication mode, i.e., face-to-face and computer-mediated communication through online mode. However, there is a paucity of research that has investigated the effects of task type on negotiation of meaning (NoM), a specific type of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Task Analysis
Malika Beisenova; Gulzira Kenzhetaeva; Gulshat Beysembaeva; Gulzhan Altynbekova; Fatima Yerekhanova; Assel Akhmetbekova; Aitmukhamet Trushev – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Anglicisms play a pivotal role in shaping media discourse in Kazakhstan, potentially influencing both the style and content of media texts. The communicative and pragmatic features of anglicisms in Kazakhstani news feeds, in addition, are deeply impacted by globalization. This research aims to analyze how anglicisms influence the perception and…
Descriptors: Turkic Languages, Linguistic Borrowing, Mass Media, Language Styles
Heesun Chang; Amin Raeisi-Vanani – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
The purpose of this study is to analyze the grammatical complexity features of international teaching assistants' (ITAs) mock-teaching presentations and to compare the distributions of these features to those found in the Oral English Proficiency Test (a local ITA assessment), university classroom teaching, conversation, and academic writing. The…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Assistants, Oral Language, Language Proficiency
Yu Hui; Thora Tenbrink – SAGE Open, 2025
This study addresses how Chinese learners of English as a second language (L2) perceive conversations in English materials as compared to speakers of English as a first language (L1). Data were collected through questionnaires completed by 48 participants (28 L2 English learners in China and 20 L1 English speakers in the UK), eliciting evaluations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Context, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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