Publications

Publication details [#45962]

Cheng, Winnie and Martin Warren. 2007. Checking Understandings: Comparing Textbooks and a Corpus of Spoken English in Hong Kong. Language Awareness 16 (3) : 190–207.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | discourse strategy | L2-acquisition | language, comprehension of | textbook

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

Drawing on authentic spoken discourse in the Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (HKCSE), this paper explores how school textbook discourse strategies regarding mutual comprehension in English as a second language interaction are actually linguistically implemented in real life interaction.