Foreigner talk in the ESL classroom : interactional adjustments to adult students at two language proficiency levels

While native speakers adjust their speech to accommodate non-native speakers on syntactic and prosodic levels, they also make adjustments on the level of discourse. It has been argued that these interactional adjustments are crucial to the promotion of language learning. A quasi-experimental, factor...

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Main Author: Brulhart, Marilyn Mae
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25356