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Luijkx, Antoinette; Gerritsen, Marinel; van Mulken, Margot – Language Awareness, 2022
One of the new scales in the CEFR Companion Volume is online interaction. The new descriptors cover goal-oriented online transactions, including written correspondence and the use of formulaic language. In Dutch business schools, students learn German for special purposes at B1/2 level: they are expected to master German in a professional context…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German
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Hansen, Miriam; Jucks, Regina – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2014
A significant amount of communication between lecturers and students takes place via e-mail. This study provides evidence that two types of cultural cues contained in the e-mail impacts lecturers' linguistic adaptation to, and appraisal of, the student. A total of 186 psychology lecturers from universities in Germany answered a fictitious…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Mediated Communication, Psychology, Electronic Mail
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Durham, Mercedes – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
Sociolinguistic competence is not often examined in nonnative English acquisition. This is particularly true for features where the variants are neither stylistically nor socially constrained, but rather are acceptable in all circumstances. Learning to use a language fully, however, implies being able to deal with this type of…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Comparative Analysis
Schenker, Theresa – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation explores the effects of a cross-cultural, cross-lingual virtual exchange on students' foreign language skills and intercultural competence. Specifically, the dissertation investigates the effects of students' participation in a twelve-week telecollaborative exchange on their use of syntactic complexity in foreign language writing…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Student Participation, Telecommunications, Second Language Learning
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Di Donato, Robert, Ed.; Humbach, Nancy A., Ed. – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2004
The title, "Making Connections: From the Classroom to the World Beyond", underscores one of the basic principles of language teaching echoed in the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) "Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century". Teachers are constantly making connections in their…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Majors (Students), Portfolios (Background Materials)