Multiple sociological studies have demonstrated how talk of ‘good’ motives enables people to maintain the presentation a moral self in context stigmatised behaviours. Far fewer examined why sometimes describe acting for ‘wrong reasons’ or choose qualify, reject, assumptions that they are motivated by desire ‘do good’. In this article, I analyse one such situation: sperm donors who being partial...

Video research methods provide a powerful yet accessible way for researchers to observe and theorize entrepreneurial phenomena by analyzing entrepreneurship “in motion.” Despite the growing uptake of video data in research, there is no available overview or analysis current uses methods, which makes it difficult interested grasp its value possibilities. Our systematic review 142 articles publis...

This study investigates the maximum output of minimizing teacher talk and activating classroom interactivity in teaching English as a foreign language light 21st-century skills. It focuses on self-evaluation (SETT model) interactional competence (CIC) that guides teachers to use interaction tool give their learners enough learning opportunities. Teacher talking time is analyzed from dualistic p...

This paper examines the relationship between verbal and visual semiotic cues by analyzing how semiotic cues position speakers interactionally and communicate implicit evaluative messages in one television news story. The paper summarizes an analysis of this news story that my collaborator and I have done based solely on verbal cues (Wortham & Locher, 1996). Then the paper analyzes the visual cu...

Learning a new language also involves learning a broad system of norms for social relations.This study broadly showed how EFL learners’ speech act is conveyed from their nativecultures when they are communicating in English and demonstrated that there are somepossibilities of cross-cultural misunderstanding when interlocutors are engaged in the speechact of complimenting with native speakers of...

This study aimed at investigating the potential of collaborative and e-collaborative writing modalities in developing interactional complexity, utilization of interactional demonstrators and density of interaction. To this end, 66 Iranian intermediate female English as foreign language learners (EFL) were selected to participate in this study according to their scores on Oxford Placement Test (...