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Download full textLi, Ee Hui; Hew, Soon Hin – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2017
Storytelling plays a vital role to impart a nation's tradition, cultural beliefs and history to future generation. It is frequently used for the purpose of sharing or exchanging information as it enables the messages to be conveyed to the audience easily. Storytelling acts as a tool of human social interaction and is commonly used in education for…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Language Patterns, Cultural Influences, Chinese
Direct linkGleason, Jesse; Slater, Tammy – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2017
Second language (L2) classroom research has sought to shed light on the processes and practices that develop L2 learners' abilities [Nunan, D. 2004. "Task-based language teaching." London: Continuum; Verplaetse, L. 2014. "Using big questions to apprentice students into language-rich classroom practices." "TESOL…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis
Maguire, Mary H. – 1978
A study investigated whether there were commonalities of cue patterns in six selected tenth grade students' reading and writing that could be discovered from each student's respective language use and perception of the two distinct but interrelated processes. Specifically, the study explored how two above-average readers, two average readers, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grade 10, Language Patterns, Language Processing
Dechesne, Marti A. – 1998
A literature review, undertaken in preparation for a study of French regional needs for workforce English language instruction at the college level, covers research on this topic in areas of France and other non-English-speaking countries, student perspectives on language needs and motivation for learning English, linguistic issues in addressing…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, English (Second Language)
Gowie, Cheryl J.; Powers, James E. – 1978
The first half of this document reports on research that explores the ways in which knowledge of the world affects judgments of sentence acceptability. Sixty children in grades four through eight were studied at two times, one year apart. The subjects were first interviewed regarding their knowledge of the world in order to identify their role…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grammar, Human Development, Language Patterns
Crowl, Thomas K. – 1977
Fifth graders (18 boys, 15 girls) listened to tape recordings of adult male-female speaker pairs reading an identical passage and selected for each pair the speaker they would prefer to have as their own teacher. Girls selected female significantly more often than male speakers, and boys selected male more often than female speakers, but not…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Grade 5, Identification (Psychology), Intermediate Grades
Walker, Alma Dolores Steagall – 1973
The major purpose of this study was to contrast the responses of three groups of subjects to a language attitude questionnaire focusing on non-mainstream language patterns. The three groups were writers in the area of sociolinguistics, students who were enrolled in an experimental sociolinguistic-oriented instructional module, and students…
Descriptors: College Students, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Higher Education
Peer reviewedPittam, Jeffery; Gallois, Cynthia – Communication Monographs, 1997
Examines the language strategies used in everyday explanation by young heterosexual Australian college students to attribute blame for the transmission of HIV. Finds that speakers blamed outgroups more than ingroups; blamed outgroups at higher levels of responsibility than ingroups; but did not use more justifications for ingroups. Notes overt…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, College Students, Communication Research, Discourse Analysis
STOLZ, WALTER S.; AND OTHERS – 1967
IT HAS BEEN HYPOTHESIZED THAT THE ADOPTION OF THE LINGUISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF A SUBCULTURE OTHER THAN A CHILD'S OWN IS A VALID INDICATION OF THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE CHILD HAS BECOME SOCIALIZED INTO THAT SUBCULTURE. TO EXAMINE THIS HYPOTHESIS, RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED (1) TO EXPLORE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LINGUISTIC HABITS AND ATTITUDE…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Disadvantaged, Language Patterns, Middle Class Culture
Nakajima, Yuko – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1997
A study investigated which experiences helped Japanese learners of English as a second language acquire native-like politeness strategies and how Japanese businessmen perceive the relationship between degrees of indirectness and politeness in Japanese and in English. Subjects were 22 adult males, including 17 native speakers of Japanese working…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Communication, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness
Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1995
Papers on foreign language education include: "Beliefs About Language Learning: A Study of Korean University Students Learning English" (Susan N. Truitt), which looked at the influence of cultural background and experience on language learning attitudes; "Motivation as a Two-Sided Coin: Motivational Differences Between College-Level…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Chinese, Classroom Communication, College Students
Graddol, David, Ed.; Swann, Joan, Ed. – 1994
Papers from a British conference on applied linguistics address various aspects of evaluation and language. Articles include: "Grammar and Language Impairment: Clinical Linguistics as Applied Linguistics" (Paul Fletcher); "Putting Our Practice Into Theory" (Deborah Cameron); "Applied Linguistics as Evaluation of Theory and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Aphasia, Applied Linguistics, College Students
