David Coulson

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Is there a source for, or can anyone share, Conversation Analysis transcriptions with their actual recordings?

I am interested in CA analysis of SLA interaction, both in classrooms and outside. It seems very hard to find the source recording for a lot of published work in this field.

14 May 2018 6,613 5 View

Is there a unified rubric for assessing "21st-century skills" (critical thinking, work and life skills), related to secondary school education?

A post-graduate student is working on assessing the effect of the syllabus in the high school where she works, as an English teacher. She believes that, in addition to the linguistic development...

02 December 2016 7,700 19 View

This is a link to the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT) http://www.eat.rl./ Is there a similar French and/or Japanese language resource?

Data for word associations in English is available in EAT. This resource returns data on inquiries about normed associations by English native speakers. If you input 'cat', the following comes...

20 July 2016 5,585 16 View

How advanced must L2 speakers be before native speakers accept their neologisms as acceptable rather than inaccurate?

Language is slippery; languages evolve; languages go off in new directions under new influences. People can express indifference in British English by saying I couldn't care less. In America,...

04 February 2016 2,381 14 View

Can you recommend a specific classroom task for intermediate high-school ESL learners?

My student is trying to design an engaging task for promoting modified interaction. The research concerns transcribing moments of learner-learner acquisition in progress, but we need a really good...

31 January 2016 9,263 5 View

What are people's views on the "lex-IP" (lexical input processing) work by Joe Barcroft, specifically Resource Depletion for Output ("RDO")?

Barcroft claims that in initial learning, having learners write words (vs. undivided mental effort of memorization) significantly suppresses recall on immediate and delayed post-tests. This is...

19 January 2016 5,564 3 View

Is there qualitative research that investigates elementary (primary) aged children's view of the efficacy, or strategies, of second language learning?

I am interested in research approaches that can give voice to young children's understanding of how and why they are acquiring a second language.

18 January 2016 3,304 12 View