VIETNAMESE FEMALE SPOUSES’ LANGUAGE USE PATTERNS IN SELF INITIATED ADMONISHMENT SEQUENCES IN BILINGUAL TAIWANESE FAMILIES

This paper aims to identify how Taiwanese and Mandarin (the two dominant languages in Taiwan) are used as interactional resources by Vietnamese female spouses in bilingual Taiwanese families. Three Vietnamese-Taiwanese t...

SHOULD WE USE AMERICAN ENGLISH TO IMPROVE STUDENTS’ LISTENING SKILLS?

DEVELOPING THE INVENTORY OF CULTURAL COMPONENTS TO ASSESS PERCEPTION IN LANGUAGE LEARNING

As culture and language learning are regarded as inseparable, language teaching classes are expected to cover some elements of cultural values. The present study aims to deal with the components of culture by explaining...

BRIDGING THE SOCIO-COGNITIVE DIVIDE: RETHINKING THE WILLINGNESS TO COMMUNICATE CONCEPT FROM A CONVERSATION-BASED ELF PERSPECTIVE

Extending earlier research on the concept of Willingness to Communicate (WTC) (e.g., MacIntyre et al., 1998), this paper tests the WTC concept on a secondary school in Singapore where English is used as a lingua franca....

CONCEPTUALISING CLASSROOM INTERACTIONAL COMPETENCE

This article offers a preliminary conceptualisation of classroom interactional competence (CIC). Placing interaction at the centre of language learning, the paper considers the various practices available to both teache...