Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ349393
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1986
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Foreigner Talk in the ESL Classroom: Interactional Adjustments to Adult Students at Two Language Proficiency Levels.
Brulhart, Marilyn
TESL Canada Journal, spec iss 1 p29-42 Nov 1986
A study comparing the speech used by English-as-a-second-language teachers (N=4) when instructing beginning- and advanced-level adult classes found that display questions and self-repetitions were used much less often with advanced students, suggesting that students are being prepared, as they advance in classes, for real communicative experiences. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Classroom Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Questioning Techniques, Second Language Instruction, Speech Acts, Teacher Influence, Teacher Role, Teacher Student Relationship, Teaching Styles
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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