Jennifer D Ewald
Biographic Data
| ID | 1136396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer D Ewald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer D |
| FAMILY NAME | Ewald |
| SIGNATURE | EWALD J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Joseph's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Can You Tell Me How to Get There?”: Naturally-occurring versus role-play data in direction-giving
This study takes up the current debate on natural versus elicited data in investigations on speech acts by comparing both types of data in a particular context, that of asking for and giving driving directions. An analysis of route-descriptions offered by male and female direction-givers in both natural and role-play settings revealed only one statistically significant sex-related difference: More male than female participants included mileage es…
An Investigation of the Communicative Purposes of Road Signs: How Signs Do Things
This study explores the important communicative roles carried out by road signs both directly and indirectly. The qualitative analysis is based on a corpus of 150 road signs collected from signage on state and local highways and roadways in seven U.S. states. Road signs were identified as either full, grammatical sentences or as block language. They were further analyzed as speech acts and their performativity was briefly explored in three areas:…
Characteristics of effective auto-reply emails: Politeness and perceptions
Do you know where X is: Direction-giving and male/female direction-givers
Foreign Language Learning Anxiety in Upper‐Level Classes: Involving Students as Researchers
While both the causes and effects of students' language learning anxiety have been a frequent focus of many investigations, few have explored anxiety in the context of upper‐level language classrooms. Through a qualitative analysis of questionnaire data obtained from 21 advanced students of Spanish, this study found that, indeed, many of these students did report experiencing anxiety in upper‐level courses, perhaps an unanticipated setting given …
A Classroom Forum on Small Group Work: L2 Learners See, and Change, Themselves
Current research on language learning makes many claims about the potential benefits of small group work in L2 classrooms. With the relatively recent emphasis on students' perspectives, there is now a growing number of investigations that focus on learners' beliefs about the language classroom. In this study, 21 students and their teachers participated in a collaborative forum in which they explored the use of small group work in their L2 classro…
Spanish Verbs
Foreign Language Learning Anxiety in Upper‐Level Classes: Involving Students as Researchers
While both the causes and effects of students' language learning anxiety have been a frequent focus of many investigations, few have explored anxiety in the context of upper‐level language classrooms. Through a qualitative analysis of questionnaire data obtained from 21 advanced students of Spanish, this study found that, indeed, many of these students did report experiencing anxiety in upper‐level courses, perhaps an unanticipated setting given …
Characteristics of effective auto-reply emails: Politeness and perceptions
Do you know where X is: Direction-giving and male/female direction-givers
Spanish Verbs
A Classroom Forum on Small Group Work: L2 Learners See, and Change, Themselves
Current research on language learning makes many claims about the potential benefits of small group work in L2 classrooms. With the relatively recent emphasis on students' perspectives, there is now a growing number of investigations that focus on learners' beliefs about the language classroom. In this study, 21 students and their teachers participated in a collaborative forum in which they explored the use of small group work in their L2 classro…
Foreign Language Learning Anxiety in Upper‐Level Classes: Involving Students as Researchers
While both the causes and effects of students' language learning anxiety have been a frequent focus of many investigations, few have explored anxiety in the context of upper‐level language classrooms. Through a qualitative analysis of questionnaire data obtained from 21 advanced students of Spanish, this study found that, indeed, many of these students did report experiencing anxiety in upper‐level courses, perhaps an unanticipated setting given …
Do you know where X is: Direction-giving and male/female direction-givers
Characteristics of effective auto-reply emails: Politeness and perceptions
An Investigation of the Communicative Purposes of Road Signs: How Signs Do Things
This study explores the important communicative roles carried out by road signs both directly and indirectly. The qualitative analysis is based on a corpus of 150 road signs collected from signage on state and local highways and roadways in seven U.S. states. Road signs were identified as either full, grammatical sentences or as block language. They were further analyzed as speech acts and their performativity was briefly explored in three areas:…
Can You Tell Me How to Get There?”: Naturally-occurring versus role-play data in direction-giving
This study takes up the current debate on natural versus elicited data in investigations on speech acts by comparing both types of data in a particular context, that of asking for and giving driving directions. An analysis of route-descriptions offered by male and female direction-givers in both natural and role-play settings revealed only one statistically significant sex-related difference: More male than female participants included mileage es…
Psychology (7 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (2 works) · Mathematics education (2 works)