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Barón, Júlia; Roquet, Helena; Evnitskaya, Natalia; Navarro, Noelia – English Language Teaching, 2020
This study aims to explore how the speech act of requesting is performed in Catalan (L1), English (L1) and EFL classrooms by pre-primary teachers. The study examines transcripts of 40-minute video-recorded lessons (six in Catalan/L1, six in English/FL, and three in English/L1) collected in several pre-primary schools in Catalonia, Spain. Recall…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Preschool Education, Romance Languages, Native Language
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Colas, Jean-François; Sloep, Peter B.; Garreta-Domingo, Muriel – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
A new approach for overcoming the language and culture barriers to participation in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is reported. It is hypothesised that the juxtaposition of English as the "language of instruction," used for interacting with course materials, and one's preferred language as the "language of participation,"…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Barriers, Language Usage