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Solodka, Anzhelika; Perea, Luis; Romanchuk, Natalia – Arab World English Journal, 2019
Every speaker of a native language undergoes an interlanguage continuum or the way that the language learners go through from the first to the second language. Interlanguage is an essential theory for teachers to know what goes on in the learning process. It makes the teachers look at the varieties of mistaken linguistic forms with an eye for…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Native Speakers, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Kitao, S. Kathleen; Kitao, Kenji – Research-publishing.net, 2013
Data-driven learning (DDL) is an inductive approach to language learning in which students study examples of authentic language and use them to find patterns of language use. This inductive approach to learning has the advantages of being learner-centered, encouraging hypothesis testing and learner autonomy, and helping develop learning skills.…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Computational Linguistics, Language Research, Personal Autonomy
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Caccia, Paul – English Journal, 1991
Describes the use of language analysis and speech-act categories (declarations, assertives, directives, commissives, and expressives) to deal with meaningful classroom concerns, thereby enabling the teacher and students to work more effectively together. (KEH)
Descriptors: Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Language Arts, Language Patterns
Davies, Sheena; Parkinson, Brian – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1994
This paper describes a collaborative project that sought to combine teacher development and illuminative research. Eight teachers on a general English course, working in pairs, observed each other's lessons and then held discussions, which were recorded and analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Published coding systems were used by the…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Coding, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education
Fukuya, Yoshinori; Reeve, Melissa; Gisi, Jeniffer; Christianson, Mary – 1998
This exploratory study examines the efficacy of Focus on Form (i.e., brief instruction on linguistic forms while learners engage in meaning) at the pragmatic level. Specifically, comparing Focus on FormS (interactions followed by explicit debriefing on pragmatic forms) and Focus on Form (interactions followed by debriefing on meaning), the…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Grammar
Furumoto, Mitchell A., Ed.; And Others – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1997
Reports of language research in the 1996 issue include: "Corpus Planning for the Southern Peruvian Quechua Language" (Serafin M. Coronel-Molina); "Foreign Language Planning in U.S. Higher Education: The Case of a Graduate Business Program" (Mitchell A. Furumoto); "Charting New Directions: Of Communication in a Social…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Administration Education, Classroom Environment, Cross Cultural Training