A Pragmatic Approach to Fluency and Disfluency in Learner Language

A Pragmatic Approach to Fluency and Disfluency in Learner Language
Author: Maximiliane Frobenius
Publsiher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2022-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027256966

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This monograph presents analyses of filled and unfilled pauses, cut-offs, repair, discourse markers and other phenomena often referred to as disfluencies in the context of advanced language learners' PowerPoint presentations. It adopts a multimodal perspective to demonstrate the functions of these elements in interaction. Paired with gaze shifts, pointing gestures and posture shifts, they act as facilitators of joint visual orientation, mutual understanding, and accountable actions. Therefore, this volume suggests the name cofluency to reflect their potential functionality. Cofluencies are essential elements of multimodal chunks and multimodal patterns, and these are building blocks of a multimodal turn-taking mechanism for presentations. These concepts are illustrated and discussed based on excerpts from naturally occurring classroom data.

Fluency and Disfluency Across Languages and Language Varieties

Fluency and Disfluency Across Languages and Language Varieties
Author: Liesbeth Degand,Gaëtanelle Gilquin,Laurence Meurant,Anne Catherine Simon
Publsiher: Presses universitaires de Louvain
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2019-03-08
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9782875587695

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Fluency and disfluency are characteristic of online language production and may be signalled by markers such as filled and unfilled pauses, discourse markers, repeats or self-repairs, which can be said to reflect ongoing mechanisms of processing and monitoring. The Fluency & Disfluency across Languages and Language Varieties conference held at the University of Louvain in February 2017 marked the closing of a five-year research project dedicated to the multimodal and contrastive investigation of fluency and disfluency in (L1 and L2) English, French and French Belgian sign language, with a focus on variation according to language, speaker and genre. The closing conference was intended as an opportunity to further expand the range of languages, language varieties and genres studied from the (dis)fluency perspective. The selection of papers in this volume re ects the diversity of approaches aiming to uncover the ways in which fluency and disfluency are conceived in language production and comprehension and how they are signalled. Topics include methodological challenges in cross-linguistic (dis)fluency research, the role of contextual features in professional and non-professional settings, and the characteristics of fluency and disfluency in second language speech. Of particular importance in all contributions is the ambivalent role of pauses, discourse markers, repeats and other markers, which can be both a symptom of encoding difficulties and a sign that the speaker is trying to help the hearer decode the message. They should thus be interpreted in context to identify their contribution to fluency and/or disfluency, which can be viewed as two sides of the same coin.

Conversation Analysis and Classroom Management

Conversation Analysis and Classroom Management
Author: Revert Klattenberg
Publsiher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2022-01-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783662646823

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Strategies for successful classroom management have been readily available to practitioners for at least half a century. However, despite the vast body of knowledge available, there appears to be a great deal of scope for further research in terms of developing a more detailed understanding of the interactional details of classroom management practices. Drawing on a corpus of 58 hours of video and audio recordings in English as a Foreign Language classrooms in Germany, the book provides a micro-analytical perspective of foreign language classroom management. It contributes to the body of current research by focusing on how foreign language teachers respond to pupils’ classroom norm violations using interrogative constructions (i.e. interrogative reproaches). Through a Conversation Analytic investigation of these social actions, the paper provides valuable insights into the details of the in-situ production of classroom management strategies and their underlying interactional mechanisms.

Pragmatics Language Learning Volume 11

Pragmatics   Language Learning  Volume 11
Author: Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig,J. Cesar Felix-Brasdefer,Alwiya Saleh Omar
Publsiher: Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2006
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780824831370

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"This volume features cutting-edge research on L2 pragmatics from a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches. It offers fresh perspectives on standard topics such as the use and learning of speech acts and the pragmatic meanings of linguistic resources, and the effect of planned intervention on pragmatic development in language instruction. The chapters also document researchers' increasing attention to different forms of computer-mediated communication as environments for using and developing L2 pragmatic competence, and of conversation analysis as an approach to different aspects of interaction in a variety of settings."--Publisher's website (nflrc.hawaii.edu/).

Teaching Children with Pragmatic Difficulties of Communication

Teaching Children with Pragmatic Difficulties of Communication
Author: Gilber MacKay,Carolyn Anderson
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2013-12-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781134117345

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First Published in 2000. In everyday life, 'pragmatic' means 'useful', 'functional' or 'what's right for just now'. In communication, it means just the same. This book has been written for teachers and speech and language therapists (SLTs) working in services for children who have difficulty communicating usefully.

Pragmatics Language Learning

Pragmatics   Language Learning
Author: Gabriele Kasper,Hanh thi Nguyen,Dina Rudolph Yoshimi
Publsiher: Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780980045963

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Pragmatics & Language Learning Volume 12 examines the organization of second language and multilingual speakers' talk and pragmatic knowledge across a range of naturalistic and experimental activities. Based on data collected on Danish, English, Hawai'i Creole, Indonesian, and Japanese as target languages, the contributions explore the nexus of pragmatic knowledge, interaction, and L2 learning outside and inside of educational settings.

Pragmatics in Language Learning

Pragmatics in Language Learning
Author: Ive Emaliana,Widya Caterine Perdhani
Publsiher: Universitas Brawijaya Press
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2013-12-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9786022035732

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This book aims to develop pragmatics understanding in accordance with the teaching and learning process of English as foreign language relates to the necessity for real communication. Pragmatics and its area of study, like speech acts, politeness, the face wants, the negative and positive face, and implicature should be implemented in the foreign language learning activities for gaining pragmatic competence. This can be done through comprehending that teaching pragmatic becomes an integral part of learning, identifying teaching techniques used to insert pragmatic competence, and implementing it in the teaching and learning activities. The expectation is that this book will be beneficial for English language teachers in general and prospectus teachers who are currently studying in English teacher training institutions.

Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech

Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech
Author: Sandra Götz
Publsiher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2013-03-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027272331

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This book takes a new and holistic approach to fluency in English speech and differentiates between productive, perceptive, and nonverbal fluency. The in-depth corpus-based description of productive fluency points out major differences of how fluency is established in native and nonnative speech. It also reveals areas in which even highly advanced learners of English still deviate strongly from the native target norm and in which they have already approximated to it. Based on these findings, selected learners are subjected to native speakers' ratings of seven perceptive fluency variables in order to test which variables are most responsible for a perception of oral proficiency on the sides of the listeners. Finally, language-pedagogical implications derived from these findings for the improvement of fluency in learner language are presented. This book is conceptually and methodologically relevant for corpus-linguistics, learner corpus research and foreign language teaching and learning.