Abstract The presentation-practice-production (PPP) approach is used in primary schools Vietnam to teach speaking skills. However, there disagreement about the theoretical validity and practical efficacy of PPP ( Ellis, 2018 ; Willis & Willis, 2007 ) little research evidence for how teachers actually implement their views this approach. current study addresses gap. Seven from six were obser...

Quantitative analyses and the analyses of a questionnaire were conducted to examine the relations between participants’ communicative activities and their interactional attitudes in conversations both in their native and second languages. The two categories of conversations revealed different gaze patterns that reflected the differences in difficulties they had with communication and grounding ...

Awareness is defined as the perception of the activities being carried out by members of a team in a given context. The use of awareness support techniques reduces the effort needed to realize communicative and collaborative tasks. Therefore, this leads to an increase in group work productivity. In this article we propose a conceptual framework which improves upon the process of building intera...

In this study, we investigate pauses and durational patterns in Mandarin spontaneous conversation, as well as investigate how reliably such elements can serve as boundary-marking predictors across different types of speech modes and how language activities are affected by their cognitive correlates. Our results show that pause duration is significantly correlated with specific boundary status. ...

In this artide, I have considered the main FLT methods still in use at schools and presented the theory of language and leaming underiying them, their main features, activities and techniques, their foundation and decline, as well as a general assessment of ai! of them. The following methods have been analysed: the Grammar-Translation Method, the Structuralist Methods, and the Communicative App...

In this paper we describe the criteria adopted for the creation of a corpus of spoken language produced by children of six to eleven years of age in different communicative situations, the methodology used for the collection of data, the transcription, coding and lemmatization phases. We also give some quantitative descriptions about nouns, verbs and adjectives present in the corpus. Qualitativ...

Research in Business Information Systems includes empirical as well as design related activities. For gaining access to domain knowledge for building an Information System, we have developed a method guiding researchers from qualitative, empirical research to the identification of requirements for Software features. The method builds on expert interviews, communicative validation, concept mappi...

In this paper, we analyze the interactions in a Web 2.0 platform of teachers from 60 schools integrating the Kelluwen network. This network is a part of a project aimed to introduce the Web 2.0 as a pedagogical tool for the development of socio-communicative skills in middle school students from Southern Chile. Clustering analysis was performed to understand the behavior of teachers in the netw...

the study was conducted with the aim of examining the rate of foreign language anxiety in male and female language learners. flcas (foreign language classroom anxiety scale) was administered to two groups of male and female learners. the mean scores of flcas indicated a significant difference with females having considerably higher levels of anxiety than males. from 38 female learners, 22 were ...