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Natalia M. Rojas – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Despite the importance of classroom language interactions for children's school readiness skills and the school readiness gaps faced by Spanish-speaking emergent bilinguals (EBs), the field knows little about their classroom language interactions in early childhood education (ECE) classrooms. Expanding upon traditional approaches of observing…
Descriptors: Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nimet Çopur; Adam Brandt – Classroom Discourse, 2024
The interactional roles of smile and laughter have been widely explored in both institutional settings and mundane talk (e.g. Holt 2016; Potter and Hepburn 2010). However, the role of one specific kind of smile, what we call a 'squeezed-mouth smile' (SMS), remains unexamined. Using CA, this study explores one teacher's use of SMS in response to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Nonverbal Communication, Humor
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Zaibo Long; Jinfen Xu – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
As one of the major feedback strategies in language classrooms, teacher reformulations have garnered intense interest from researchers in the field of second language teaching and learning. However, scant attention has been paid to teachers' self-reported intentions and students' perceptions of teacher reformulations. This study aims to identify…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Morady Moghaddam, Mostafa – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
This study explores discourse markers (DMs) as they occur with compliment responses (CRs) in classroom interactions among Iranian learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). Using the tenets of conversation analysis, this paper draws on data from teacher-student interactions in several private language institutes in Iran. After audiorecording…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
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Thomas Zapounidis; Marina Mattheoudakis – Journal of Educational Research and Innovation, 2024
This article highlights the need for a new type of corpus that will combine both a learner and a pedagogic corpus. The need for such a type of corpus is underlined by the interaction between input and output and the expected impact of the former on the latter within all instructional settings. Such a corpus will allow us to collect data, including…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Davis, Marianela D. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative case study examined communication strategies and interactional resources that junior and senior high school Spanish teachers use more often in their oral activities in central Pennsylvania public schools. A mismatch in students' knowledge and use of Spanish motivated the investigation. Twelve Spanish teachers were the purposely…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Communication Strategies
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Fatma Badem-Korkmaz; Ufuk Balaman – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
As active student participation in classroom interaction is widely accepted as a central component of foreign language learning, prompting student contributions becomes consequential in L2 educational settings including synchronous remote classrooms. When there is a lack of response following teacher questions, teachers resort to a variety of…
Descriptors: Student Participation, English (Second Language), Classroom Communication, Teacher Student Relationship
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Soheil Kargar Dahr; Baqer Yaqubi; Sajjad Pouromid; Mahmood Dehqan – Classroom Discourse, 2024
While existing research into L2 classroom discourse has highlighted how knowledge and knowledge positions are negotiated, no attention seems to have been paid to what might be called "conceptual epistemic domains." Drawing on 22 hours of video-recorded data from Iranian EFL classrooms, our conversation analytic study illustrates how…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sugene Kim – Language Awareness, 2025
This study employed a mixed-methods approach to explore the attitudes of second language (L2) learners and L2 teachers toward the use of learners' first language (L1) in L2 classrooms. Interview data were collected from Japanese college students (n = 91) and their English teachers (n = 9) to identify salient themes related to the reasons for…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Anthony Wotring – TESL-EJ, 2025
The adoption of innovative pedagogy without clear guidance in adapting teaching approaches to English language teaching contexts has led to disconnects in meeting students' and teachers' classroom talk needs. One such innovation, the dialogic teaching approach, centres a principled conception of classroom talk to enhance pedagogical practice.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Farnia, Maryam; Mohammadi, Shiva – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
The present paper deals with the perception of Iranian EFL teachers and learners in using humor in language classrooms. To this end, 10 English classes with a population of 70 female and male students and 5 male and female teachers in English language institutes in Esfahan were observed during spring and summer 2019. Using an ethnographic…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Marie Rickert – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
This study examines how language ideologies are negotiated and navigated in a linguistically diverse kindergarten group in Germany, focusing on the multilingual language practices of teachers and children. Drawing on data generated during 3months of focused linguistic ethnographic fieldwork, I analyse situations in which children and teachers…
Descriptors: Polish, German, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries
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Zhou, Xiaozhou – ELT Journal, 2023
Translanguaging and codeswitching are frequently employed in second/foreign language classrooms. Though the differences between these two practices have been examined from a conceptual perspective, the potential of translanguaging as a pedagogical resource has not been empirically addressed. This article opens with a concise comparison of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Wagner, Santoi; Park, Innhwa – Language Learning, 2022
This study demonstrates how conversation analysis can illuminate the interactional practices through which the Present-Attention-Co-construction-Extension (PACE) approach to grammar instruction, which involves a guided, inductive co-construction of grammar rules with learners, is realized in the classroom. The data consist of three whole-class…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, High School Students, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Jiazhou Yao; Marianne Turner – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Interest in formal Nuosu Yi language programmes has been waning in Liangshan, China, even though Nuosu Yi continues to be widely spoken among Yi residents. In this paper, we adopt Hornberger (2004. "The Continua of Biliteracy and the Bilingual Educator: Educational Linguistics in Practice." "International Journal of Bilingual…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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