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Download full textWhitty, Lauren – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019
CAN and COULD have multiple uses and multiple interpretations, which can be difficult for learners of English to understand. For example, the difference of "Can you help me?" and "Could you help me?" may go unnoticed to an English language learner, but a native speaker of English would recognise a difference in politeness. The…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics
Direct linkFacchinetti, Roberta, Ed.; Crystal, David, Ed.; Seidlhofer, Barbara, Ed. – Peter Lang Bern, 2010
All languages encode aspects of culture and every culture has its own specificities to be proud of and to be transmitted. The papers in this book explore aspects of this relationship between language and culture, considering issues related to the processes of internationalization and localization of the English language. The volume is divided into…
Descriptors: Group Membership, English, Jews, Foreign Countries
Terraschke, Agnes – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2007
Based on a corpus of ca. 18 1/2 hours of dyadic interactions between near-strangers, this paper investigates the use of general extenders (GEs) by native speakers of New Zealand English (NSNZE) and German (NSG) in terms of their forms and frequencies. The results are compared with the use of GEs produced by German non-native speakers of English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, German, Native Speakers, Pragmatics
Ringbom, Hakan, Ed. – 1993
Three articles on near-native English language proficiency are presented. "Attitudes to English Usage: A Comparison between Native and Non-Native Speakers," by Ann-Christin Miemois, reports on a study of attitudes toward usage of certain lexical items in English in four distinct situations. Subjects were natives of Finland and New…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
Zhu, Yunxia – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2006
Confronted with various issues in teaching business writing to Chinese students in New Zealand, this paper sees the need for bridging the gap between genre-based research and teaching in an intercultural context. Specifically, it develops an intercultural reflective model in the light of Bhatia's sociocognitive genre study as well as…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Teaching Methods
Kim, Sun Hee Ok; Elder, Catherine – Language Teaching Research, 2005
This article examines the language choices made by native-speaker teachers of Japanese, Korean, German and French in foreign language (FL) classrooms in New Zealand secondary schools. It explores these teachers' patterns of alternation between English, the majority language, and the TL, using both AS-units (Analysis of Speech units), devised by…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Secondary Schools, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
