CHILDREN'S DEVELOPING AWARENESS OF THE COMPLEX MEANINGS OF THE "SLEEP VERBS"

This study aimed at examining the semantic acquisition of two sets of converse verbs associated with 'sleep': sleep-get up, fall asleep-wake up by Hebrew speaking children aged 2-12. It was hypothesized that the or...

Introduction: Conversation Analysis in Applied Linguistics

THE ATTITUDE AND THE IMPACT OF THE AMERICAN ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE WITHIN THE SAUDI EDUCATION SYSTEM

This paper investigates the impact of 9/11 on the educational system in Saudi Arabia. In particular, it discusses how this phenomenon took its course to influence the English teaching system in Saudi Arabia, and the atti...

 TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF OTHER TEACHERS’ SPONTANEOUS HAND GESTURING IN THE EFL CLASSROOM

 The evidence for gesture being a vital element in the classroom is becoming insurmountable; however, it remains to be seen how long it will take to be fully utilized in the EFL classroom. This study, using a qual...

ACTION OR REACTION, LEARNING OR DISPLAY: INTERACTIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND USAGE-BASED DATA

This paper investigates how instances of language use can serve as analytic anchors for insight into interactional development over time. I present a usage-based, longitudinal study of multi-turn sequences underlying tel...