This study aimed to investigate the use of interactional metadiscourse markers in 168 comments made by 28 university students of engineering via an educational forum held as part of a general English course. The students wrote their comments on six topics, with a total of 19,671 words. Their comments during educational discussions were analyzed to determine their use of five metadiscourse categ...

Developing rating scales for assessing interactional performance is demanding since it is a relatively complicated procedure. The present study investigated the psychometric characteristics of the CAP rating scale (Wang, 2015) for assessing interactional competence at micro-level. To this end, 160 Iranian intermediate EFL learners were selected based on their performance on TOEFL iBT test from ...

RESEARCH AIMS The present article provides a comprehensive examination of the relationship between playing position and leadership in sport. More particularly, it explores links between leadership and a player's interactional centrality-defined as the degree to which their playing position provides opportunities for interaction with other team members. This article examines this relationship ac...

This study documents and characterizes a phenomenon in noturolly-occurring conversation which I have termed InteractIonal reconstruction. lnteroctional reconstruction involves retroactive reinterpretation of on earlier utterance (or set of utterances) on the basis of a more recent utterance (or set of utterances). This work is meant to serve two functions: first, to enrich our theories of human...

In the field of health communication, it is increasingly important to understand interactional management free choice and demands (good) care, especially in situations where these two objectives conflict with each other. a multimodal interaction analysis video recordings, this article examines decision-making processes which caretaker refuses retrieve requested object for woman living acquired ...