We apply three communication theories (the collaborative theory of language use,
communication accommodation theory, and media richness theory) to aspects of …

This article aims to analyze the act of closing a conversation in a virtual world—Second Life.
The participants in the conversations are 64 avatars who produced 39 dialogues. The …

There has been increasing attention on the educational power of video games in recent
years (Gee, 2003, 2005; Prensky 2001, 2006; Thorne, 2008; Purushotma, 2005). This study …

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This study examines ESL tutoring openings and closings. The data come from real-time
dialogues involving tutors who are native speakers of American English and students who …

Conversation analysis offers the potential for useful contribution to the study of speech act
performance by microanalysing the sequential organisation of natural data of participants …

The present study is concerned with the process of how EFL learners organise their
classroom participation. Although oral engagement is considered the main indicator of …

The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the research on interlanguage pragmatics and
multimodality. The main purpose is to explore how learners at different proficiency levels …

This study sought to unearth the dynamics of telephone closedown ritual in Farsi in terms of
pre-closing and terminal exchanges in non-institutional settings and to compare them with …

This dissertation explores the potential of synchronous computer-mediated communication
(SCMC) to promote pragmatic competence among language learners in a higher education …