In the context of a Language Massive Open Online Course (LMOOC), teacher interventions have to be designed into the course, since personalized teacher feedback actions are impossible due to the large number of participants. Learner autonomy, peer-feedback and task design are crucial in this course design. This paper presents a study on the task design effect on participants of a tandem MOOC (En...

This qualitative study is an attempt to develop our knowledge on using the back-channels in English conversations as a secondlanguage obtaining English language textbooks for Iranian school students through the old and new educational system. The textbook ofsecond guidance school grade has been compared with seventh juniorhigh school grade (as the frst group), and the textbook...

Minangkabau and Indonesian languages are an Austronesian. In this study, it was focused on the typology study of three different languages, namely: Minangkabau, Indonesian, English relative clauses. It aimed to find out differences similarities clauses among languages. This paper also outlines Accessibility Hierarchy approach facts that describe building clause construction. The data taken from...

When Thai students spoke English, they frequently deviated from the English consonant sounds. This aspect significantly influences level of misunderstanding in communication. study aims to look at variables that cause deviate sounds and many phonological issues The research approach employed this was descriptive qualitative. participants were twelve Universitas Muhammadiyah Surabaya. data exami...

How do English as a lingua franca (ELF) speakers achieve multimodal cohesion on the basis of their specific interests and cultural backgrounds? From a dialogic and collaborative view of communication, this study focuses on how verbal and nonverbal modes cohere together during intercultural conversations. The data include approximately 160-minute transcribed video recordings of ELF interactions ...

This paper takes stock of findings based on the Monash Corpus of Australian English. In 1996– 97 members of the (then) Monash University Department of Linguistics embarked on the collection of a corpus in Victoria to facilitate the study of variation in phonology, morphosyntax, lexicon and discourse patterns. The largest part of the corpus was based on data from Year 10 students in ten schools ...

the present article considers why plato, in definitional conversations, finally don’t give a definitive answer to the question which is introduced in this class of conversations, and why these conversations are ended to aporia. for this purpose, first, we seek the etymology of this term, and then, it is concluded that, aporia means a trouble, in which the characters of the conversations, in fin...

FP7-ICT Collaborative Project ICT-2013-611233 PHEME Deliverable D2.4 (WP2) This deliverable describes the work conducted in Work Package 2 for the study of conversations around rumours in social media. It describes our efforts towards developing an annotation scheme for analysing each of the messages that participate in rumourous conversations, and we put it into practice by creating a large-sc...