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| LETTER FROM THE CHAIR |
| Dilin Liu, Professor, Applied Linguistics and TESOL Program Coordinator, University of Alabama, dliu@as.ua.edu |
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| LETTER FROM THE PAST CHAIR |
| Howard Williams, Lecturer in Linguistics and Language Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, howwil@aol.com |
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| LETTER FROM THE EDITORS |
Olga Griswold, ovgriswold@csupomona.edu, and
Jana Moore, jana_moore@ferris.ac.jp |
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| ARTICLES |
| TASK-BASED L2 PEDAGOGY FROM THE TEACHER'S POINT OF VIEW |
| Nick Andon, King's College London, London, England, nick.andon@kcl.ac.uk |
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Although task-based language teaching (TBLT) is highly
promoted in the pedagogical and research literature, we know little
about how TBLT is perceived and “done” by ESL teachers in their
classrooms. On the basis of evidence from in-depth case studies of
experienced teachers, I suggest answers to this pressing question. Read More |
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| INFLUENCES OF LEARNERS' MOTIVATION ON THE PROCESSING OF CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK |
Baburhan Uzum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, baburhan@msu.edu, and
Bedrettin Yazan, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, byazan@umd.edu |
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This study reports on the relationship between learners’
motivation in language learning and their responses to corrective
feedback in a classroom setting. The analysis indicates that the type of
motivation (intrinsic/extrinsic) can predict the learners’ responses to
corrective feedback provided by teachers or peers. Read More |
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| COMPUTER-ASSISTED TRANSCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS: SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR QUALITATIVE RESEARCH |
| Karen Price, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, kprice@tiac.net |
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In this paper I review several software applications designed
to assist in the transcription and analysis of audio and video data.
Some assist in the manual transcription of audio and video. Others
provide integrated suites of tools to help organize, annotate,
categorize, search, and share large amounts of data, offering
researchers new ways to make meaning of their language data. Read More |
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| THE VALIDITY OF NONNATIVE SPEAKER INPUT IN LISTENING COMPREHENSION TESTS |
| Priyanvada Abeywickrama, Assistant Professor, English (MA TESOL Program), San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA, abeywick@sfsu.edu |
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With the global spread of English, it is currently used by
more nonnative speakers than native speakers. This fact leads to
questions about the usefulness of listening tests whose input is limited
only to a native speaker variety. This study investigated the impact of
foreign accents on test takers’ performance on listening
tests. Read More |
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| BOOK REVIEWS WANTED! |
Did you read a great book that applies to our field? Want to share it with the rest of us? If so, contact Olga Griswold or Jana Moore about submitting a book review for our next edition of the ALIS newsletter. All reviews must be in APA format style, no more than 1,500 words, and submitted by September 30 for the Winter edition of the ALIS newsletter.
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