This comparative analysis of teacher-student interaction in two different instructional settings at the elementary-school level (18.3 hr in French immersion and 14.8 hr Japanese immersion) investigates the immediate effects of explicit correction, recasts, and prompts on learner uptake and repair. The results clearly show a predominant provision of recasts over prompts and explicit correction, ...

Awareness of a sociolinguistic variable and linguistic behavior are intricately connected, such that the former can influence speakers’ use particular variants. As result, exploring awareness salience as part variation is crucial to fully understanding choices speakers make in interaction social meaning variants they employ. In this article, I investigate how patterns production perception Astu...

This study aims to shed a light on children’s pragmatic development by examining Mandarin-speaking requests in interactions with their parents. It is found that children between 24 and 36 months old appear use various request forms, primarily simple imperatives WANT statements. A closer examination reveals prefer activity-based while both primary forms are unstructured daily conversations. The ...

Determining which factors promote or impede the sharing of knowledge within organizations constitutes an important area of research. This paper examines knowledge sharing through the lens of equity theory. The study will explore the impact of three types of justice – distributional, procedural and interactional – on knowledge sharing. Hypotheses regarding the influence of distributional, proced...

Over the past decade, there has been an increasing interest in the study of interactional metadiscourse markers in different contexts. However, not much research has been conducted about the discourse of journal author guidelines, especially the use of meta-discourse markers in this genre. Therefore, this corpus-based study had three main aims: 1) to delve deep into the types, frequencies and f...

Consonants in word onsets are, in English and Dutch, more frequently misspoken than consonants in other positions, and also more frequently than expected from the relative numbers of onset consonants and other consonants. We argue here that relative numbers of segments in specific positions in the word is not a valid predictor of relative frequencies of segmental speech errors. A more valid pre...