There is a tendency to think of World Englishes in the noun form; as products rather than as processes (implying that one receives both ready-made, controlling the development of neither). Conceptualising World Englishes as processes in which one can participate as an agent raises the question of what skills are needed in their active construction. The author will argue that since culture resid...

This comparative analysis of teacher-student interaction in two different instructional settings at the elementary-school level (18.3 hr in French immersion and 14.8 hr Japanese immersion) investigates the immediate effects of explicit correction, recasts, and prompts on learner uptake and repair. The results clearly show a predominant provision of recasts over prompts and explicit correction, ...

This paper examines how expertise is treated as a separable domain of epistemics by looking at simulated intensive care shift-handovers between resident physicians. In these handovers, medical information about patient transferred from an outgoing physician (OP) to incoming (IP). These handovers contain different interactional activities, such discussing the identifiers, giving clinical impress...

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...

Determining which factors promote or impede the sharing of knowledge within organizations constitutes an important area of research. This paper examines knowledge sharing through the lens of equity theory. The study will explore the impact of three types of justice – distributional, procedural and interactional – on knowledge sharing. Hypotheses regarding the influence of distributional, proced...

Over the past decade, there has been an increasing interest in the study of interactional metadiscourse markers in different contexts. However, not much research has been conducted about the discourse of journal author guidelines, especially the use of meta-discourse markers in this genre. Therefore, this corpus-based study had three main aims: 1) to delve deep into the types, frequencies and f...

This article analyses ECEC staffs’ perspectives on the in-service professional development (PD) process aimed at improving quality of interaction in ECEC, inspired by Caregiver Interaction Profile (CIP) scales. The study draws theories and research PD falls within a pragmatic paradigm, using qualitative individual interviews, thematic external observations. Main findings: staff found highly use...

Consonants in word onsets are, in English and Dutch, more frequently misspoken than consonants in other positions, and also more frequently than expected from the relative numbers of onset consonants and other consonants. We argue here that relative numbers of segments in specific positions in the word is not a valid predictor of relative frequencies of segmental speech errors. A more valid pre...