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Why we don't always say what we mean: Linguistic Politeness and Intercultural Competence
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'Learning and using languages in ethnographic research: by Robert Gibb, Annabel Tremlett, and Julien Danero Iglesias, Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2019'
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Interculturality in Action at an English Conversation Club in a Thai University: The use of Cultural Differences and Spatial Repertoire/ Thai 'Habitat' Factor in the Management of Interaction
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Transparadigming or Methodological Promiscuity: Analysing the verbal, the visual and the digital in Applied Linguistics research
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Wall of Support: New Perspectives on Students’ Use of Graffiti
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The Use of Humour in the Off-task Spaces of the Language Classroom
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The verbal and the visual in language learning and teaching: insights from the ‘Selfie Project’
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English: its role as the language of comity in an employment programme for Canadian immigrants
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This study explores the experiences of a culturally and linguistically diverse group of immigrant adult students as they attended a 12-week employment preparation course for newcomers to Canada. The main aim of the course was to equip the immigrants with knowledge and skills, including English for employment purposes, which are necessary to be competitive in the labour market. Using ethnographic methods, mainly participant observation with audio recording, to collect data, this paper analyses the communicative strategies that this group of multilingual speakers and their Canadian teachers deployed to discursively construct a ‘heterotopia’ defined here as ‘intensely affective spaces that redefine the experiential feeling of being and becoming’. Analysis of transcribed audio recordings reveals that despite differences in communication conventions and sociocultural backgrounds, the research participants from Congo, Haiti, India, Bangladesh, Jordan and the Philippines managed to establish a socially cohesive team that emphasises shared relational identity and in-group membership. The findings show how they creatively mobilised previously acquired pragmatic strategies and resources from their L1 to suit the demands of the ongoing interaction in English. It is suggested that language teaching in the context of preparing immigrants for labour market integration entails a pedagogical approach that foregrounds the affordances of English not only as the language of employment but perhaps more importantly as the ‘language of comity’. It is therefore suggested that the teaching of the host country’s language should focus less on grammatical correctness and focus more on providing the adult learners with opportunities to activate existing pragmatic resources and strategies which have to do with establishing rapport and friendly relations.
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URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1197451
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‘Don’t be serious, sabai-sabai สบายสบาย’: How Members of an English Conversation Club at a Thai University do Interculturality
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Blue paint and white underwear: miscommunication and humour in intercultural contexts.
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Every picture tells a story: using selfie-inspired activities to enhance social relations and encourage self-reflexivity.
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Using the liminal, off-task spaces of the classroom as a pedagogical tool
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The Selfie Project: Learning/Teaching English in an Innovative Way
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Review of: Elementary Tagalog: Tara Mag-tagalog tayo. Domigpe, J. and Domingo, N., Tokyo/Vermont/Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, 2012. XIV + 320.
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In: Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS) 7 (2014): i-ii (2014)
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Review of: Elementary Tagalog: Tara Mag-tagalog tayo. Domigpe, J. and Domingo, N., Tokyo/Vermont/Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, 2012. XIV + 320.
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In: Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEALS) 7 (2014): i-ii (2014)
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Book Review: 'Bousfield, D. & Locher, M. (Eds.) (2008) Impoliteness in Language: Studies on its Interplay with Power in Theory and Practice'
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Negotiating communication and building relation across cultures
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A discourse analytic study of power as caring relations in Philippine university classrooms.
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