this paper investigates learner-initiated responses to english language teachers’ referential questions and learner initiatives after teachers’ feedback moves in meaning-focused question-answer sequences to analyze how interactional practices of language teachers, their initiation and feedback moves, facilitate learner initiatives. classroom discourse research has largely neglected learner init...

Interest in Conversation Analysis (CA) and its possible applications in the fields of language learning and language teaching has grown considerably over the last five years. There are now a range of publications which explore this area. The article therefore attempts to synthesise the current state of the research and identify the issues and problems that have arisen and those areas which are ...

This paper follows recent works in the eld of dialectical models of inter-agent communication. The request action as proposed by Winograd & Flores is reconsidered in an original dialogue game framework, as a composition of di erent basic games. These basic games are based on commitments of participants and are handled through a contextualization game which aims at de ning how games are handled ...

Recent criticism within LAP challenges the theoretical basis of the “conversation for action” schema described by Winograd & Flores (1986) as an approach for modelling interaction. The criticism points to conversation analysis, as practiced in the fields of Sociology and Communication, as a remedy. The remedy can be taken further, however. It is suggested here that the concepts of felicity cond...

(i) Much of psychology conceives of language in a noninteractive fashion, as the psychology of grammar and meaning, and as a matter of specifying the mental processes underlying comprehension and production. This is the established domain of experimental psycholinguistics, and of various approaches to language in experimental Social Psychology, such as ‘verb semantics’ models of causal attribut...

This paper describes a principled method for weighing evidence from various sources in order to identify the referent of a description that is not guaranteed to be correct. We adopt assumptions consistent with Gricean maxims of conversation, thereby mapping the problem into a simple Bayesian framework that allows us model the behavior of the speaker. This framework has been shown to give us the...

We propose an approach to reasoning about conversation protocols within the framework of a logic-based agent language. We show how to embed a theory of communicative actions in the framework of a modal logic of action and beliefs, to specify software agents that, situated in a multi-agent environment, can interact with one another by a speech act based communication mechanism. Agents have their...

This study investigated the comparative effect of teaching idiomatic expressions through practicing them in conversation and paragraph writing on intermediate EFL learners’ idiom learning. The participants were sorted out of a population of 134 intermediate students in Zabansara Language School in Khorramabad based on their scores on a Preliminary English Test (PET) and an idiom test piloted in...

We study the problem of response selection for multi-turn conversation in retrieval-based chatbots. The task requires matching a response candidate with a conversation context, whose challenges include how to recognize important parts of the context, and how to model the relationships among utterances in the context. Existing matching methods may lose important information in contexts as we can...