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Green, Judith L.; Dai, Yun; Joo, Jenna; Williams, Edward; Liu, Ang; Lu, Stephen C.-Y. – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2015
This study examines what the members of an interdisciplinary research alliance, at the intersection of Engineering and Education Ethnography, learned through ongoing dialogues among members (2012-2014). The analyses make visible how, and for what purpose(s), this interdisciplinary "research alliance" was constructed, including the…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Ethnography, Research, Teaching Methods
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Chen, Yuan-shan; Liu, Jianda – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2016
This study reports the development of a scale to evaluate the speech act performance by intermediate-level Chinese learners of English. A qualitative analysis of the American raters' comments was conducted on learner scripts in response to a total of 16 apology and request written discourse completion task (WDCT) situations. The results showed…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, North Americans, Grammar, Electronic Mail
Peng, Jui-ching Fion – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Due to the growing focus on learner independence, peer assessment has received a lion's share of attention in recent years. Nevertheless, this idea is novel to most English language teachers and students in Taiwan where traditional assessment is still dominant. This study investigated college students' attitudes towards and possible language…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Class Size, Student Attitudes, Peer Evaluation
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Chen, Chi-Fen Emily – Language Learning & Technology, 2006
Though e-mail has become a common interpersonal communication medium, it does not mean that this medium is used without difficulty. While people can write e-mails to peers in any manner they like, writing e-mails to authority figures requires higher pragmatic competence and critical language awareness of how discourse shapes and reflects power…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Interpersonal Communication, Metalinguistics, Discourse Analysis