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Peer reviewedWilliams, Jessica – TESOL Quarterly, 1992
An examination of the planned and unplanned production of 24 nonnative-speaking teaching assistants indicates that there is a greater difference between the 2 conditions in the degree of discourse marking than in grammatical accuracy. Findings suggest that explicit marking is a crucial element in the comprehensibility of nonnative-speaker…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Grammar
Peer reviewedHoekje, Barbara; Williams, Jessica – TESOL Quarterly, 1992
Examines the curriculum of international teaching assistant (ITA) programs within a sociolinguistic model of language use, the "communicative competence" model proposed by Hymes (1972). The authors advocate reconceptualizing language skills in terms of communicative competence allowing ITA programs to better prepare ITAs for their roles as…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Foreign Nationals, Higher Education
Download full textWilliams, Jessica – 1994
A discussion of discourse analysis focuses on its usefulness as a framework for analyzing and improving the communication skills of international teaching assistants (ITAs). The discussion is based on the transcript (appended) of a native Chinese-speaking ITA conducting an organic chemistry class in English. Using discourse analysis at one level,…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Williams, Jessica – 1988
In the past several years, a number of states have enacted laws requiring all classroom instructors employed by the state to be proficient in English. Other states will have similar laws on the books within the year, and another handful are still considering the issue. These laws have affected primarily the international teaching assistants…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), English (Second Language), Foreign Students, Higher Education
Williams, Jessica – 1990
A study evaluated the relative pedagogical and cost effectiveness of training programs for international teaching assistants (ITAs) that are conducted before and within the academic year. Both program types were established at the University of Illinois during the academic year 1989-90, with similar content, the same number of contact hours, the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Chinese, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques
Williams, Jessica – 1990
An examination was conducted of the planned and unplanned speech of 24 native speakers of Mandarin and Korean who were serving as teaching assistants at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Each was videotaped on two occasions two weeks apart in a preparation course for international teaching assistants (ITAs), in which instruction in the use of…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Foreign Students
