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Direct linkOliver, Rhonda; Rochecouste, Judith; Vanderford, Samantha; Grote, Ellen – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2011
Repeated assessments of literacy skills have shown that Aboriginal students do not achieve at the same level as their non-Aboriginal peers. Many Aboriginal students speak Aboriginal English, a dialect different from the Standard Australian English used in schools. Research shows that it is crucial for educators in bidialectal contexts to be aware…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Knowledge Level
Oliver, Rhonda; Grote, Ellen – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2010
The role of conversational interaction in second language research has increasingly been seen as playing a facilitative role in second language learning. As such there have been a number of studies focussing on different types of interaction, including feedback such as recasts, and their potential role in second language learning. In this study,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Language Research, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Tognini, Rita; Philp, Jenefer; Oliver, Rhonda – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2010
This paper reports on a study of peer interaction in ten foreign language (FL) classes, six secondary and four primary, over a period of four months. The focus of this paper is the nature of peer interaction, including the purposes of second language use, and language choice. The data, comprising observation, audio and video recordings of five…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Oliver, Rhonda; Haig, Yvonne – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2005
This study reports on teachers' attitudes towards their students' speech varieties of English. A sample of 172 primary, district high and secondary teachers in Western Australian was surveyed on their attitudes towards language variation and towards their students' use of specific English variants. The teachers were found to have generally…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Background, Teaching Experience
Peer reviewedHaig, Yvonne; Oliver, Rhonda – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2003
Suggests that while language variation is widespread and natural, it is subject to judgment and that where a standard has developed other varieties are judged against the standard. Investigates how teachers judge the speech of school-aged students and what influences that judgment. Results show teachers' perceptions of speech were most strongly…
Descriptors: Age, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Peer reviewedIwasaki, Junko; Oliver, Rhonda – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2003
Examines communicative interactions between native speakers (NSs) and nonnative speakers (NNSs) of Japanese on Internet relay chat, with a special focus on implicit negative feedback in the interactions. Reports that NSs of Japanese gave implicit negative feedback to their NNS partners and NNSs used the feedback in their subsequent production, but…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Feedback, Internet
