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Koonnala, Pristsana; Chaiwong, Napasporn – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
This study examines the persuasive English language in MasterClass's video advertisements. An analysis framework was formed using twenty-four techniques to identify persuasive language, and the purposes of using different techniques in one hundred and forty-one MasterClass's video scripts. The analysis included identifying the primary argument of…
Descriptors: Advertising, Video Technology, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sparapani, Nicole; Solari, Emily; Towers, Laurel; McIntyre, Nancy; Henry, Alyssa; Zajic, Matthew – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often exhibit challenges with reading development. Evidence-based interventions and specialized approaches to reading instruction are currently being implemented across educational contexts for learners with ASD (Machalicek et al., 2008), yet there is limited understanding of how core ASD features may…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interaction, Reading Instruction
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Basol, Hasan Çaglar; Kartal, Galip – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
Discourse markers (DMs) are significant for fluent speech. Furthermore, they are essential elements of language for conversation organisation, reciprocal relation of interlocutors, productive speaking and comprehension. Although they have critical functions for pragmatic development, they are neglected in language teaching either because of the…
Descriptors: Films, Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Zengin, Bugra – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2019
Although millions of EFL learners benefit from watching subtitled/captioned movies and TV shows in non-instructional settings, one almost untouched area is the development of strategies in benefiting from film scripts and their translated versions as well as audio language-subtitle combinations. This paper reports research subsequent to the…
Descriptors: Films, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Di Maio, Fabrizio – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This paper illustrates the use of two language-teaching and learning methods (process drama and theatre) in a class of Italian. Process drama is based on improvisation, over-identification, and dramatisation from a short set of coordinates that students can read just a few minutes before the activity that will be later performed in class (see…
Descriptors: Drama, Theater Arts, Italian, Second Language Learning
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Ganz, Jennifer B.; Boles, Margot B.; Goodwyn, Fara D.; Flores, Margaret M. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2014
Although electronic tools such as handheld computers have become increasingly common throughout society, implementation of such tools to improve skills in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities has lagged in the professional literature. However, the use of visual scripts for individuals with disabilities, particularly those…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Electronic Learning, Vocabulary Development, Visual Stimuli
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Larson, Deborah Aldrich – Journal of Teaching Writing, 1987
Noting that knowledge of grammar rules does not ensure correct usage in one's own writing, describes an approach used in a summer workshop to promote awareness of appropriate idiom where 35 highly motivated black students produced 'Snow White' using their own script, half in standard dialect and half in black dialect. (JG)
Descriptors: Bidialectalism, Black Dialects, Black Youth, Class Activities