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Interactional Fluency and Turn‐Managing Gestures Across Second Language Proficiency Levels: A Multimodal Analysis

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Whereas L2 fluency research has focused on monologic speech, interactional fluency (IF), particularly during turn transitions, remains underexplored. This study investigates how turn‐managing gestures (TMGs) contribute to L2 IF, drawing on 60 dyadic interactions from Taiwanese learners in the International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of ...
Yen‐Liang (Eric) Lin, Shu‐Ting Huang, Renia Lopez‐Ozieblo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

AI interactivity and human-technology engagement: psychological mechanisms underlying learners' intention to use AI tools in language learning contexts. [PDF]

BMC Psychol
Lyu C, Tang S, Li S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Second Language Interactional Competence in Roleplay: Comparing Generative Artificial Intelligence and Human Interlocutors

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the potential of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) as an alternative to human interlocutors for assessing interactional competence (IC) in a second language (L2). Thirty L2 English speakers completed a 6‐item roleplay task designed to elicit refusals of requests, invitations, and offers, interacting with both a ...
Yunwen Su, Xi Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Trouble spots in literary conversation learning: managing bilinguals' cognitive expectation problems using conversational presupposition theory. [PDF]

BMC Psychol
Ke Y, Chen L, Zhou X.
europepmc   +1 more source

“As if I Had a Part‐Time Job… to Teach the White Kids”: Racialized Labor and the Extractivism of Linguistic Capital in World Language Education

The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent studies exploring mixed heritage language (HL) and second language (L2) classes have documented how these classes tend to prioritize the needs of L2 students while positioning HL students’ linguistic knowledge as a resource for their L2 peers.
Rima Elabdali
wiley   +1 more source

Development and Validation of the Interpreting Learning Engagement Scale (ILES). [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Yu W, Wu C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Gukurahundism, Constitutionality and Ethnonationalist Language Policy Contestations: An Ideological Critique of Mediated Discourses About Mother Tongue Instruction in Zimbabwe

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines mediated discourses on the state of implementation of language in education policy using a critical incident as a reference. Employing Thompson's modes of ideology, we perform an ideological critique of purposively sampled cross‐media discourses spawned by the failed attempt of a Zimbabwean government deputy minister to ...
Khulekani Ndlovu, Busani Maseko, Liqhwa Siziba   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How team leader narcissism influences team task performance: the mechanisms of team identification, team member narcissism and task initiative. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Liu Y, Liu H, Wang X, Park H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Doing versus assessing interactional competence : Contrasting L2 test interaction and teachers’ collaborative grading of a paired speaking test

, 2019
Sandlund, Erica, Sundqvist, Pia
core  

Stigma, self‐styling and ‘forced accents’ among English L2 speakers in Spain

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the relationship between shame, stigma and accent for non‐native English speakers in Spain. The low English competence of the Spanish population frequently constitutes a source of individual and collective stigma – which includes the apparent undesirability of Spanish‐sounding English.
Eva Codó, Carly Collins
wiley   +1 more source