Download or read book Communication Strategies and Interactional Skills Analysis in an ESL Classroom written by Dr. Shubhada Deshpande and published by KY Publications. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manuscript prepared with the aim to explore the possibilities of correlation between communication strategies and interactional skills. I am glad to share the analysis and results of the research exercise conducted with the help of my 40 students who, though expressed their happiness over having experienced motivation towards English speaking throughout the study, actually made the whole journey of research possible. I am optimistic towards further implications of the study as I am sure the clusters of communication strategies and interactional skills observed as a part of my study can be further explored as the pathway to improved speaking skills of the ESL learners.
Download or read book Teaching through Peer Interaction written by Rebecca Adams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching through Peer Interaction prepares teachers to use peer communication in the classroom. It presents current research of peer interaction and language learning for teachers, including background on the role of peer interaction in classroom language learning, guidelines for adopting and adapting peer interaction opportunities in real classrooms, and perspectives on teachers’ frequently expressed concerns and questions about peer interaction. Practical and comprehensive, this text brings together information on peer communication across the different skill areas, for different learners, in different contexts, and includes discussion on assessment. The text is replete with sample activities, tasks, and instructional sequences to aid teachers' understanding of how to use peer interaction effectively in a range of classroom settings, making it the ideal textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in language education programs, as well as in-service teachers.
Download or read book Conversation Analysis and Second Language Pedagogy written by Jean Wong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, this volume offers a strong synthesis of classic and current work in conversation analysis (CA), usefully encapsulated in a model of interactional practices that comprise interactional competence. Through this synthesis, Wong and Waring demonstrate how CA findings can help to increase language teachers’ awareness of the spoken language and suggest ways of applying that knowledge to teaching second language interaction skills. The Second Edition features: Substantial updates that include new findings on interactional practices Reconceptualized, reorganized, and revised content for greater accuracy, clarity, and readability Expanded key concepts glossary at the end of each chapter New tasks with more transcripts of actual talk New authors' stories The book is geared towards current and prospective second or foreign language teachers, material developers, and other language professionals, and assumes neither background knowledge of conversation analysis nor its connection to second language teaching. It also serves as a handy reference for those interested in key CA findings on social interaction.
Download or read book An Analysis of Communication Strategies Employed by ESL Learners in Group Interaction written by Siew Hoon Lim and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationship Between the Use of Communication Strategies and Aspects of Target Language Proficiencies written by Tahereh Paribakht and published by International Center for Research on Bilingualism = Centre international de recherche sur le bilinguisme. This book was released on 1984 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four hypotheses are addressed concerning the relationship of the types and proportion of strategies adopted by the subject groups to the proficiency levels, and the subjects' rate of success and effective use of communication strategies for conveying intended meaning as they relate to proficiency level in the target language. The subjects were 40 Persian students in Canada at two distinct proficiency levels, and 20 native English speakers as a comparison group. Communication skills were elicited by a concept-identification task using concrete and abstract nouns, and involving both oral production and interaction between members of the two groups. A taxonomy of communication strategies was developed, with classification into four communicative approaches (linguistic, contextual, conceptual, and mime) based on the type of knowledge used by the speaker for their adoption. Results also showed that differences between groups in the adoption of communication approach types were minimal except in the relative frequency of use of some strategies, and that the groups differed in success rate at getting meaning across and in their effective use of strategies to communicate abstract concepts. It is concluded that use of communications strategies and target language proficiency level are related, use of communication strategies is dynamic, and that differing surface realizations of speakers' communication skills cumulatively affect success in conveying meaning. (MSE)
Download or read book Language Learner Strategies written by A. D. Cohen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a unique and timely re-examination of key issues such as strategies in context, strategy instruction, and strategy research methods by numerous experts in the field. Offers an invaluable overview of what is known from empirical research about listening, reading, speaking, writing, vocabulary, and grammar strategies. Proposes a clear and focused research agenda for the next decades. Research into language learner strategies has the fundamental goal of improving the teaching and learning of second languages. This book explores the notion that the reason some learners of second languages excel and others struggle lies in what the learners themselves do-the strategies they bring to language learning and to language use.
Download or read book Communication strategies learning and teaching how to manage oral interaction written by Luciano Mariani and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when you need to express the meaning of a word that you don’t know in a foreign language? How do you start and close a conversation, and how do you keep it going? What can you do if you are not sure about what to say in an unfamiliar situation?Communication strategies is a book about the ways and means that users of a second or foreign language can employ when they have to face problems due to gaps in their linguistic, communicative or intercultural competence. Strategies also enable them to deal with uncertainty in personal and intercultural contacts and to increase their autonomy in using languages.Communication strategies is both a handbook for teachers, teacher trainers and educators, providing them with a sound methodological background, and a collection of 30 practice activities, games and tasks for language learners and users. Photocopiable worksheets are provided, as well as freely downloadable recordings of native and non-native speakers of English.
Download or read book Strategy Use in Unequal Encounters written by Shoudong Feng and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation aims to identify the pragmatic communication strategies of Chinese ESL learners in two academic settings, namely, the ESL classroom and the ESL tutorial session. The concept of pragmatic communication strategies originates from the well-researched construct of second language learners' communication strategy, which has long been understood as strategies that address primarily problems and difficulties associated with the use of vocabulary. However, the essential purpose of this study is not how ESL learners solve their linguistic problems but how they negotiate their relationships with native speakers of English with their second languages. This study was a qualitative research effort that involved observation, interviews and questionnaire. Data were collected mainly in an ESL classroom and a language learning center where tutorials are conducted. In both settings there are unequal relationships between the two parties engaged in interaction. In the classroom context, the instructor decided the agenda, materials, topics, methods of teaching, turn of speaking, and finally and probably most importantly the grades. In the tutorial session, the tutors, although not having the same amount of power over the students as the instructor, had good command of the language used in the context, and consequentially represented the dominant values, determined the topics, and determined a variety of other discourse-related issues. Critical discourse analysis was applied to the data. This is a discourse approach that is based on the recognition of the influence of power relations in society on the production of discourse and text. It deals with such issues as class, status, gender, race, hegemony, dictatorship, nationalism, sexism, media control and organizational discourse. The ultimate goal of this theory is to help people become aware of the use of language to exercise power and in many instances victimize the powerless individuals. The findings of this study suggest that these ESL learners adopted various kinds of pragmatic strategies in negotiating their relationship with the instructor and tutors. Facing the powerful party in each context, they choose to (or have to?) adopt certain strategies in order to accomplish their communicative goals, be they long term or short term goals. Clearly the context had an impact on the strategies they used, as some could be found only in one setting while others only in another setting. It is not clear if these participants also adopt the same strategies in their own language and culture, in other words, the influence of the second language on the choice of pragmatic communication strategies needs to be further determined in future studies.
Download or read book Interactive Language Teaching written by Wilga M. Rivers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-02-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers and writers describe the approaches and techniques they have incorporated into their own teaching. The paperback edition is designed to help classroom teachers make language classes more participatory and communication oriented. A distinguished group of innovative teachers and writers describe, in a collection of essays, the approaches and techniques they have incorporated into their own teaching.
Download or read book ELT written by Christoph Haase and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a survey of the latest results and discussions in the research on English Language Teaching (ELT), bringing together researchers from four continents and 11 different countries to discuss current topics and issues in the field. In doing so, it offers a debate in a conducive and intellectually charged environment which enables the reader to gain insights into new technologies, ideas and concepts of practitioners working at very different research and teaching institutions. The papers collected in this volume provide ample evidence of the lively atmosphere and the interesting conversations present in ELT in recent years. Much has changed in the research of ELT; the field has become more technical and applied on the one hand and more theoretically informed on the other. As such, it is a particular achievement of this volume that it enables the diverse disciplines under the umbrella of ELT to communicate and exchange their approaches. It is in this way that linguists can talk to methodologists and cultural studies scholars cooperate with literary scholars. The tripartite structure of this book reflects this. The first part is dedicated to linguistic issues and contains a number of both large-scale and micro-scale studies. The second section collects papers from the cultural and literary studies field. The concluding segment concerns new approaches in methodology and offers two very technical contributions on CLIL.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Implementing Response to Intervention to Address the Needs of English Language Learners written by Holly S. Hudspath-Niemi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is considerable concern surrounding the complex issue of how to meet the learning needs of English-language learners within general and special education programs. Implementing Response-to-Intervention to Address the Needs of English-Language Learners increases school psychologists’ knowledge of intervention strategies related to ELLs, through its examination of the challenges associated with evaluating ELLs and by providing a collaborative framework to enhance educational identification and placement in special education. It accomplishes this by incorporating research-based intervention approaches for ELLs and offering a comprehensive guide to the processes and tools that school teams should consider when utilizing a response to intervention model to support the academic and behavioral needs of ELLs. With a strong focus on alternative assessment, collaboration, and parental involvement, this volume in a definitive touchstone in the quest to provide culturally responsive pedagogy and appropriate adapted classroom instruction for English-language learners of various proficiency levels.
Download or read book The Effect of Modeling a Jigsaw Task on Communicative Strategies of ESL Learners written by Sojung Kim Choe and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines one aspect of task-based language instruction, an increasingly popular approach, which provides learners practice in performing communicative acts in English and which promotes learners' ability to use communicative strategies when problems are encountered (Long 1983; Pica 1996; Tarone & Yule 1995). This study addresses the question of whether or not a video of native speakers of English (NSE) interacting during a jigsaw task positively affects the communicative strategies of English as a Second Language (ESL) learners involved in a similar task. Two experiments were conducted. A video model showing two NSE using communicative strategies including confirmation and comprehension checks during a jigsaw task was shown to ten advanced learners of English before they performed a similar task. This group was compared with a control group of learners (N = 10) who were not shown the video. The second experiment examined how modeling may affect different proficiency levels. Twelve Korean students had a high proficiency level (mean = 601 on TOEFL) and Eight Korean students had a lower proficiency level (mean = 516 on TOEFL). For the data analysis, the utterances of participants during interaction were transcribed, and three communicative strategies (clarification requests, confirmation/comprehension checks) were coded and analyzed. The results indicate that modeling appeared to increase the communicative strategies of the experimental groups, with an apparently stronger influence on the high proficiency learners. The results suggest that video modeling of communicative strategies may be an effective method for enhancing the teaching of ESL/EFL communication strategies.
Download or read book Teaching Conversation Skills in ESL written by Ronald Eckard and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The ESL ELL Teacher s Survival Guide written by Larry Ferlazzo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maximize the educational potential of your ESL/ELL class with this singular resource The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels, 2nd Edition offers readers a comprehensive range of instructional strategies and educational resources for teaching English. The newly revised 2nd Edition includes brand new chapters on: Working with Long-Term English Language Learners Teaching English internationally Teaching Elementary Age ELLs Teaching Adult ELLs Teaching ELLs with learning challenges Culturally Responsive Instruction Effective online instruction Working with co-teachers and para-professionals In addition to the new chapters, The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide contains updated material on topics including math, science, social studies, Common Core Standards, the Next Generation Science Standards and 150 pages of new, highly engaging content. An essential resource for anyone involved in teaching English as a Second Language to students of all ages, this book is perfect for general education teachers and ESL specialists for students in grades six through twelve. It’s also highly instructive for teachers of adult ESL classes, elementary and teacher educators, and resource specialists.
Download or read book Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Active Learning Strategy Curriculum that Promotes K2 Young Learners English Communication Ability written by Michael Underhill and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Pedagogy - Miscellaneous Topics, grade: Pass, , course: TESOL Young Learners, language: English, abstract: The basis of the research study aims to evaluate a new ‘ESL Curriculum for Young Learners’ resulting in the creation of an accompanying syllabus for the curriculum and the development of ‘Active Learning Strategies’ lesson plans that root their success in the research of Vygotsky, Gardner and Piaget. The research will follow three phases of investigation. Phase I is the creation of materials such as questionnaires for parents, administrator interview, peer observation of the teacher by a professional in the field and reflective inquiry in the form of a teacher’s journal. Phase II of the research monitors the implementation of pre-tests and post-tests to gauge the accuracy of the statistical data followed by Phase III which will present and evaluate various treatments in an attempt to arrive at positive outcomes. Treatments incorporated detailed quantitative and qualitative data to explore the implementation of a new ESL curriculum for young learners. Data collecting included a pre-test and post-test analysis and formative assessment criteria and data reporting, while a parent questionnaire, peer review, interviews with the director of the program and a student portfolio yielded additional information. Data analysis consisted of recording percentage, mean and standard deviation. A teachers log and a self reflective journal also made an impact in evaluating the qualitative data. The participants in the study were two pre-school classes of children from ages 4 and 5 years (total 24). These children attend a private institution and they are part of the Native Speaker Program at the school. The school is located in Northern Thailand in the city of Chiang Mai. Participant’s progress was tracked over a two term period (2011-2012) to compare the old curriculum results and evaluations using an updated, newly revised curriculum based on the current European Framework and contemporary research in reputable published academic journals. Themes addressed in the research are teaching young learners, teacher critical self-reflection, review of statistical data and evaluations written in a teachers log for the past two years. Maintaining the motivation level of young children learning English as they prepare for a future where English language competence is monitored and mandated by the Thai government will be examined as well as sub- topics like classroom management and teacher enthusiasm.
Download or read book Corrective Feedback in Second Language Teaching and Learning written by Hossein Nassaji and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together current research, analysis, and discussion of the role of corrective feedback in second language teaching and learning, this volume bridges the gap between research and pedagogy by identifying principles of effective feedback strategies and how to use them successfully in classroom instruction. By synthesizing recent works on a range of related themes and topics in this area and integrating them into a single volume, it provides a valuable resource for researchers, graduate students, teachers, and teacher educators in various contexts who seek to enhance their skills and to further their understanding in this key area of second language education.
