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Iranian EFL Learners’ Interactional Competence in Paired Speaking Tasks: An Account of Task Type Variability [PDF]
The use of paired speaking tasks for the assessment of interactional competence has recently attracted the attention of many scholars in language learning research.
Manoochehr Jafarigohar +2 more
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An Argument-Based Validation of an Asynchronous Written Interaction Task
Interactional competence has attracted increasing attention due to its significance for language users. Previous studies concerning interactional competence mainly focus on synchronous interaction tasks, while the utilization of asynchronous interaction ...
Ting Chen
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Assessing interactional competence
Abstract This paper is positioned at the interface of second/foreign language (L2) assessment and Conversation Analysis-Second Language Acquisition (CA-SLA). It explores challenges of ratability in assessing interactional competence (IC) from three dimensions: an overview of the conceptual and terminological convergence/divergence in ...
Daniel M. K. Lam +3 more
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Interactional Competence and Gender Impacts on EFL Learners’ Self-Perceptions of Its Sub-Constructs [PDF]
Even though interactional competence (IC) has recently been at the center of attention, its constructs/sub-components and influencing factors still require profound scrutiny.
Zari Saeedi, Hossein Jajarmi
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Enhancing Interactional Competence Through the Use of English Expressions [PDF]
An exploratory study was conducted on the use of common English expressions in accountancy and business courses in a Singapore university. The aim of the study was to investigate the use of English expressions required by students to engage in effective ...
Junaitha Gaffoor, Padma Rao
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Adsorption in Mixtures with Competing Interactions [PDF]
A binary mixture of oppositely charged particles with additional short-range attraction between like particles and short-range repulsion between different ones in the neighborhood of a substrate preferentially adsorbing the first component is studied by molecular dynamics simulations.
Marek Litniewski, Alina Ciach
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The main purpose of English learning is to communicate and interact in global contexts. However, in English as a foreign language (EFL) contexts as in China, most of the students have limited interactional competence in contrast to their grammatical and ...
Jie Ding
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Special Issue: The adaptive nature of linguistic behavior [PDF]
Not just diachronic change or synchronic variability in linguistic structure, but also the shape of speakers’ expressive strategies for navigating natural verbal interaction can be seen as reflections of the fundamental human capacity for adapting to ...
Mirjam Fried
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“Having two teachers leading a classroom opens up many opportunities for students as well as for teachers” (Trites, 2017). At the same time, the class becomes a safe, inclusive and equitable learning environment.
Eva Alcalà Arxé +3 more
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This research focuses on the teaching-learning of an interactional skill in professional French language training (FLP). First of all, the article offers an overview of the concept of interactional competence, defined in foreign language didactics and ...
Sabrina Royer
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