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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Non-native speaker"”.
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Non-native speaker attitudes toward non-native English accents
The increasing number of proficient, non-native English speakers, both in U.S. academic institutions and around the globe, warrants considerable investigation into possible norms developing within non-native to non-native interactions. This report analyzes attitudes toward accent, a prominent …
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Third position responses in French native and non native-speaker interaction
… analytic methodology to understand how French native speakers and non-native speakers produce third position responses (i.e., question-answer-follow up responses) in a sequence of talk. Specifically, the first part of the project focuses on how French native speakers produce third position …
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The impact of learning context on the acquisition of sociopragmatic variation patterns in non-native speaker teachers of English
… of compound identities. The informants are 20 non-native speaker teachers of English from a range of 10 European countries. They are all primarily mono-contextual foreign language learners/users of English: however, they differ with respect to the length of time accumulated in a target language …
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Functions of Code-switching in EFL Classrooms with Native and Non-native Speaker Teachers: A Qualitative Study in A Turkish University
… how code switching functions in EFL classes with native (NS) and non-native speaker (NNS) teachers by using classroom observation and interview methods. To reach this aim 162 B-level students and 8 teachers were observed for 16 audio- recorded classroom hours in the School of Foreign Languages …
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The use of the international phonetic alphabet as a tool to develop a standard pronunciation in basic level students
… learners everyday. Surely for the speech of a non-native speaker of English to flow and be understood, the teaching-learning process of that language must be accurate and effective. In order to make this process less frustrating and confusing and at the same time accurate and effective so an …
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The semantics of the preposition na in Slavic spatial constructions
… frequently unpredictable and perplexing to the non-native speaker. This is especially true in the case of the preposition na. By examining categories of spatial phenomena with which the preposition na is used, it is possible to better understand why na is used in many circumstances. This not …
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Models of professional writing practices within the field of computer science
… case studies were conducted involving one native and one non-native speaker of English to identify how English language proficiency affected professional practice. Efficiency was a major concern for both subjects but employed different strategies to make their work as efficient and …
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Communication strategies in second language teacher talk with special reference to Iranian teachers of English
… strategies consist of adjustments made by speakers to the formulation of their talk in order to facilitate communication, and these are clearly a potentially important aspect of teacher talk. Limiting communication strategies to those adaptations evident in the details of the interaction, …
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Language Expertise as a Source of Dispute in Bilingual Couple Talk
… orientation to such contrasting identities as native/non-native speaker and expert/novice categories. A total of 16 hours of conversations were audio-recorded in the couples' homes while they were engaged in everyday activities such as eating meals. The analysis of the data revealed several …
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A conversation analytic study on teaching moments observed in free conversations between Japanese and American friends
… of vocabulary, idioms, and culture occurs when native speakers orient to the non-nativeness of the other speakers. Native speakers of English recurrently produce “in America” and activate the other speakers’ non-native membership categorization, which occurs abruptly in a sequence with a …
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Developing a Student-Centered Curriculum for High Intermediate and Advanced Writing Community College ESL Students to Promote Their Discovery of Campus Resources
<p>Non-native speaker students in California community colleges face several challenges beyond the linguistic objectives they must achieve in their ESL courses. Many students come to the classroom with previous experiences of discrimination within the educational system. This is especially true of …
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How non-native speakers make do with words when doing things with words : an analysis of communication strategies in storytelling by Mandarin-speaking learners of English
… and analyse sequences of actions generated by Native Speakers( NS) and Non-Native Speaker( NNS) in the course of telling a story. Emergent communication problems during the talk-in-interaction were engaged with and resolved through the application of communication strategies (CS). The …
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Navigating through Challenges: Multilingual Preservice Language Teachers’ Identity (Re)construction
… often conceptualized rather problematically as nonnative English speaker teachers (NNESTs). Criticizing this perpetual learner framing of NNESTs, this study examines the collection of influences and effects from various factors and discusses their interwoven roles in these multilingual …
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Learning from feedback: How students read, interpret and use teacher written feedback in the composition classroom
… of students. Two of my participants were non-traditional students, one was a non-native speaker of English and one was a 'traditional' student. This diversity gave the study a rich look at both what about teacher feedback promotes student learning, and what may confuse students. Using …
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Standard Language Ideology and World Englishes: A Multiple Narrative Case Study of Immigrant Educators’ Experiences in Canada
… on history, definitions, teaching models, native versus non-native speaker dichotomies, language testing and discrimination, while narratives from Outer Circle English users, educated in both Inner and Outer Circle countries are noticeably lacking. Kachru’s concentric circles English model, …
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ESL speakers' production of English lexical stress: The effect of variation in acoustic correlates on perceived intelligibility and nativeness
<p>Non-native speakers of English often experience problems in pronunciation as they are learning English, many such problems persisting even when the speaker has achieved a high degree of fluency. Research has shown that for a non-native speaker to sound most natural and intelligible in his or her …
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An investigation of communication strategy use in reception
… in design, and seeks to describe the phenomenon of communication strategies both as a constituent of communicative discourse and as a part of that discourse, in inter-relationship with other constituents. The theoretical framework for the research is an interactional one. Description is …
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Cognitive genre prototype modelling and its implications for the teaching of academic writing to learners of English as a second language
… the teaching of writing for academic purposes to non English-speaking background (NESB) students. Chapter 1 presents the motivation for the thesis, and outlines the aims, objectives, and research methods. Two concepts for the classification of discourse are proposed cognitive genre and social …
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Different or similar: patterns of lexical cohesion in Chinese non-narrative text and their applications in the study of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language-A corpus-based contrastive study
… Chinese argument texts by two groups of writers: native speakers and learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language (hereafter CFL). The purposes of the research are twofold: first to inform instruction in the writing of extended Chinese texts to CFL learners and secondly to provide a basis for the …
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The effect of racialization on EFL learners’ conceptualizations of the native speaker construct
… shapes EFL learners’ conceptualizations of the native speaker construct through an experimental design. Three hundred and fourteen university students studying at English-medium universities in Turkey were invited to take an online matched guise test. They were assigned to either the control …
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