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Download full textChen, Hongyin Julie – 1996
A study exploring native English-speakers' and advanced Chinese English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners' beliefs about how a face-threatening speech act, refusal, should be expressed is reported. The two major research questions of the study were: how native speakers of English and Chinese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) differ in their…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
Hale, Sandra – 1995
A study investigated the attitudes of bilinguals toward each language and toward language mixing (codeswitching), expressions of identity, and how this relates to linguistic behavior. Subjects were 15 undergraduate students of Spanish-English interpreting and translation at an Australian university whose age (19-53), language proficiency, and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Dogancay-Aktuna, Seran; Kamisli, Sibel – 1996
This study investigated the discourse strategies used by native speakers of Turkish in carrying out speech acts of correction and disagreement to status-unequal interlocutors. Focus was on: (1) the politeness markers preferred for softening the impact of words in face-threatening speech situations where the interlocutor corrects the mistake of an…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication
Choura, Abdessalem – 1993
This curriculum guide is designed for the Arabic language training of Peace Corps workers in Tunisia, and reflects daily communication needs in that context. An introductory section describes the materials' organization and competency-based approach, and lists the 28 specific competencies targeted and the constructions taught within each…
Descriptors: Arabic, Conversational Language Courses, Curriculum Guides, Daily Living Skills
Allison, Desmond – 1994
A study investigated the frequent choice of the term "always" instead of the more appropriate term "often" in the essay writing of native Chinese-speaking learners of English as a Second Language (ESL), focusing on how problematic usage of "always" can adversely affect perceptions of the student's competence in…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics
Kabat, Grazyna; And Others – 1995
The textbook in intermediate Czech is designed for second-year students of the language and those who already have a basic knowledge of Czech grammar and vocabulary. It is appropriate for use in a traditional college language classroom, the business community, or a government language school. It can be covered in a year-long conventional…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, Czech, Grammar
Odisho, Edward Y. – 1992
A study examines two major types of vowel systems in languages, centripetal and centrifugal. English is associated with the centripetal system, in which vowel quality and quantity (rhythm) are heavily influenced by stress. In this system, vowels have a strong tendency to move toward the center of the vowel area. Spanish is associated with the…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
Cahill, Mike – 1994
An analysis of story telling in Konni, a language spoken in Ghana, focused on how the climax of a story is characterized. The texts studied are six oral folk tales; two are appended, and portions of all are used as illustrations in the text of the report. First, the definition and characteristics of "peak," or climax of a story are…
Descriptors: African Languages, Discourse Analysis, Folk Culture, Form Classes (Languages)
Chesnick, M. A.; And Others – 1992
This study examined the development of metaprocessing abilities in children with varying degrees of language abilities and sought to determine if the patterns of metaprocessing development that emerged were similar for these ability groups. Subjects were 141 children ages 4-5 at the beginning of the study, divided into a control group, a low…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Comprehension, Discourse Analysis, Early Childhood Education
Sprayberry, Roslyn R. – 1993
An experimental study investigated the effectiveness of multimedia instruction in improving listening comprehension of high school students studying second-year Spanish. Specific comprehension difficulties were found in recognizing linguistic and cultural implications, making guesses based on key words and phrases, and understanding and responding…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness, High School Students
Yip, Virginia, Ed. – CUHK Papers in Linguistics, 1991
Papers in this volume include the following: "Constraints on Dative Acquisition by Chinese ESL Learners" (Hua Dong Fan); "The Learnability of Locality Conditions on Quantification" (Thomas Lee); "Do Learning Environments Make a Difference? A Study on the Acquisition of the English Interrogatives by Three Types of Cantonese…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, High Schools
Clijsters, Willy – 1992
Instruction in business letter-writing, particularly in the context of the business French course, is discussed. First, the kinds of business communications (face-to-face, print, and electronic) currently used are surveyed briefly, and a taxonomy of the content of business communication is presented. Conventions of French business letters are then…
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Business Education, Class Activities, Classification
Bearden, Rebecca Jo – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1998
A study investigated common discourse features in the Spanish of six novice-level Spanish second language learners, as evidenced in oral interviews by two interviewers. Features examined included use of cohesive devices, use of the first language, whispering to self, scaffolding with the interviewer to express themselves, and negotiation. Results…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Introductory Courses
Salies, Tania Gastao – 1998
A lesson designed to teach usage of pronoun case within a communicative paradigm in English as a Second Language is presented. The target population consists of adult, intermediate-level ESL students. The lesson begins with a chant to gain students' interest and create a relaxed learning atmosphere. Next follows a pantomime that illustrates the…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Thompson, Bruce – 1994
Researchers too frequently consider the reliability of the scores they analyze, and this may lead to incorrect conclusions. Practice in this regard may be negatively influenced by telegraphic habits of speech implying that tests possess reliability and other measurement characteristics. Styles of speaking in journal articles, in textbooks, and in…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Editing, Jargon, Language Patterns
