Bridging Research and Practice
Professional Development Resources for L2 Teaching and Learning
Participants: dialogue (one learner, two natives) Context: activity outside class, interviewing, spring 2015 Topic Keywords: sports, soccer, food, daily life Linguistic Features: past, present, future, describing Interactional Practices: turn-taking Downloads ◆ Lesson Plan (1) [Sample] ◆ Transcript (L2)
Participants: dialogue (two learners, two natives) Context: study abroad in Brazil, conversation, summer 2015 Topic Keywords: daily routine, daily life, university Linguistic Features: present tense, use of subject pronouns, “nós” and “a gente” as 1st person plural pronouns Interactional Practices:
Participants: dialogue (two learners, two natives) Context: study abroad in Brazil, conversation, summer 2015 Topic Keywords: relationship with parents, personal experience Linguistic Features: story telling, citation of one’s and others’ discourse, past tense Interactional Practices: turn-taking, repair Downloads ◆ Transcript
Participants: dialogue (one learner, one native) Context: study abroad in Brazil, conversation, summer 2015 Topic Keywords: education, past, present Linguistic Features: past tense, variety of Portuguese spoken by illiterate or fuctional illeterate people in Brazil: lack of subject-verb agreement, lack
Participants: dialogue (one learner, one native speaker) Context: study abroad in Brazil, conversation, summer 2015 Topic Keywords: getting to know each other, career choice, family, place of origin Linguistic Features: present tense, past tense Interactional Practices: Turn-taking, expanding the topic
Participants: dialogue (two natives) Context: conversation, fall 2015 Topic Keywords: plans for the future, job search, traveling Linguistic Features: periphrasis with the verb “ir” to express future, job search vocabulary, subject pronoun in object position Interactional Practices: asking about vocabulary,
Participants: dialogue (two natives) Context: conversation, fall 2015 Topic Keywords: personal history, boyfriend, strike, vacation Linguistic Features: past tense, present tense, subject expression, use of subject pronoun in object position Interactional Practices: active listening, reactive token showing surprise and excitement,
Participants: 3 (native young female adult, from Southern Spain.) Context: host family’s home (Seville, Spain) Topic Keywords: greetings and goodbyes, small talk, summer vacation, weather, higher education, internships and volunteer work, travel destinations, foreign languages, finding a job in Spain
Participants: 3 (Native1 – Young male adult, from Seville. Native2 – Young female adult, from Seville. Non-native – Learner: Rice student, intermediate level. Chinese L1 speaker) Context: host family’s home (Seville, Spain) Topic Keywords: interview, Language contact, cultural diversity, loan
Participants: dialogue (two natives) Context: at CLIC, Fall 2015 Topic Keywords: acceptance Linguistic Features: turn taking Interactional Practices: acceptance Downloads ◆ Transcript (coming soon)
Participants: dialogue (two natives) Context: at CLIC, Fall 2015 Topic Keywords: refusal Linguistic Features: turn taking Interactional Practices: refusal Downloads ◆ Transcript (coming soon)
Participants: dialogue (one learner, one native speaker) Context: study abroad in Brazil, conversation, summer 2015 Topic Keywords: getting to know each other, career choice, family, place of origin Linguistic Features: present tense, past tense Interactional Practices: turn taking Downloads ◆
Participants: dialogue (one learner, one native) Context: host family, Rice-in-China, summer 2014 Topic Keywords: Chinese food Linguistic Features: turning taking Interactional Practices: interview Downloads ◆ Transcript (coming soon)
Participants: dialogue (two natives) Context: purchase a bike (from 2014 Summer Rice-in-China) Topic Keywords: Asking for a favor, buying a bike Linguistic Features: vocabulary, grammatical patterns, making requests Interactional Practices: request, refusal Downloads ◆ Transcript (coming soon)
Participants: Dialogue (two natives) Context: lunch talk Topic Keywords: courses, majors, campus life, career, traveling Linguistic Features: variety of sentence patterns Interactional Practices: opening a conversation, initiating and expanding topics Downloads ◆ Transcript (coming soon)
Participants: 2 (Native – Undergraduate (Senior) student at University of Seville, Non-native – Learner: Rice student, intermediate level) Context: On a train (Seville, Spain) Topic Keywords: Intensifiers, Simple syntax, Rhetorical strategies to add interest: repetition, metaphors, examples, imagery, hyperbole Linguistic
Participants: dialogue (one learner, one native) Context: activity outside class, interviewing, spring 2015 Topic Keywords: major, exchange student, overall structure and exams at Science Po Linguistic Features: past, present, describing Interactional Practices: expanding, co-construction, turn taking (overlaps, listener responses) Downloads
Participants: dialogue (two learners, one native) Context: Rice-in-China, summer 2014 Topic Keywords: Family, Marriage, Career Linguistic Features: turn taking Interactional Practices: street interview Downloads ◆ Transcript (coming soon)