Publications

Publication details [#53610]

Sardegna, Veronica G. and Daniella Molle. 2010. Videoconferencing with strangers: Teaching Japanese EFL students verbal backchannel signals and reactive expressions. Intercultural Pragmatics 7 (2) : 279–310.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | foreign language acquisition | ict-technology | pedagogy | pragmatics

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IPRG/html

Annotation

This study examines the teachability and learnability of English foreign language verbal backchannel signals and reactive expressions during a two-hour videoconference lesson on English FL discourse strategies, involving ESL teachers in the United States and EFL students in Japan.