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Youn, Soo Jung – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2020
This study explicates the nature of second language (L2) pragmatic interaction focusing on the quantitative function of interactional features. A relationship between the fine-grained interactional features elicited from learners' role-play performances at varying levels and trained raters' scores was investigated. The corpus of 102 learners'…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Pragmatics, Speech Communication, Computational Linguistics
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Lee, Victoria, Ed.; Tangiyev, Denis Melik, Ed.; Truong, Chau, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2021
The 24th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature (LLL) at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa was held online on Saturday, April 18th, 2020. This annual conference provides an opportunity for students to become socialized into academic practices, such as presenting at a conference and producing a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Intonation, Teaching Methods
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Önen, Serap; Inal, Dilek – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2019
This paper examines explicitness in English as lingua franca (ELF) spoken interactions. Using a conversation analysis procedure, about 11h of audio-recorded naturally occuring ELF interactions of 79 incoming Erasmus students were analyzed for this purpose. The corpus was compiled by means of 54 speech events, 29 interviews and 25 focus group…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Official Languages
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Berendt, Erich Adalbert – World Englishes, 1997
To elucidate natural spoken conversation as a genre type, the characteristics of dyadic discourse as a "communicative genre" is focused on by examining the primary intent of utterances and the four phases of the dominant exchange structure via an interactive functional analysis of an extensive database of ordinary conversations (student,…
Descriptors: Databases, Discourse Analysis, Interaction Process Analysis, Intercultural Communication
Maynard, Senko K. – IRAL, 1997
Analyzes listener back-channel responses observed in conversations--in English--between American and Japanese university students. Emphasizes the importance of careful attention given to the interactional management observed in intercultural conversation as well as the significance of realizing "otherness" in communication and social…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Causa, Maria – Journal of French Language Studies, 1996
Discusses reaction to miscommunication of a nonnative speaker from Italy residing in France who experiences a lapse in his ability to communicate in French with a native speaker. Notes that this occurrence encourages the pursuit of communicative competence by the nonnative speaker in the target language as well as an effort by both…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Communicative Competence (Languages), Foreign Countries, French
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Liberman, Kenneth – Research on Language and Social Interaction, 1995
Studies intercultural communication in a Buddhist monastic university in India. Oral communication involves an ensemble of speakers and hearers; an interpersonal relationship that underlies the motivation and effort among speakers and hearers is required for true dialog. Understanding meanings is sometimes subordinate to interactional…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Buddhism, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer)