Lana Rings
Biographic Data
| ID | 5434575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lana Rings |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lana |
| FAMILY NAME | Rings |
| SIGNATURE | RINGS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Arlington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Oral Interview and Cross‐Cultural Understanding in the Foreign Language Classroom
This article discusses cross‐cultural oral interviews and how they can be used in the foreign language classroom to help students understand the differing, often culture‐specific perspectives of language use among people speaking another language. By conducting interviews, or by teaching students the interview process, instructors can provide students with a means for ascertaining how people from the target culture understand or misunderstand the…
Modifying First‐Year Textbook Dialogues along a Hymesian Model of Meaning
Many variables beyond words and grammar alone determine our understanding of speech events, or language in a given context. Speakers' “scripts” (established patterns of discourse) and “world” knowlege (the often culture‐specific understanding of verbal and nonverbal constructs) are important features of any meaningful exchange of discourse. This article contends that foreign language learners will produce a higher level of language if they are ma…
Cultural Meaning and Structure in Conversations and their Pedagogical Implications
As teachers of foreign language are becoming more aware than ever that language form, function, and cultural meaning are integrally linked, two questions arise which demand our attention: how are form, function, and meaning interconnected within target language texts, and how can knowledge of structure and meaning interrelationships be conveyed to students? To these ends, this article examines features of a German conversation, which illustrate s…
Kriemhilt’s face work
Authentic Language and Authentic Conversational Texts
Although there is a trend to advocate the use of authentic texts in the foreign language classroom, a consensus regarding the criteria determining textual authenticity has not been reached. Instead, researchers often provide varying, sometimes conflicting definitions as to what comprise authentic materials. This paper draws on research in discourse analysis in an attempt to determine text authenticity through text type authenticity and provide im…
Authentic Language and Authentic Conversational Texts
Although there is a trend to advocate the use of authentic texts in the foreign language classroom, a consensus regarding the criteria determining textual authenticity has not been reached. Instead, researchers often provide varying, sometimes conflicting definitions as to what comprise authentic materials. This paper draws on research in discourse analysis in an attempt to determine text authenticity through text type authenticity and provide im…
The Oral Interview and Cross‐Cultural Understanding in the Foreign Language Classroom
This article discusses cross‐cultural oral interviews and how they can be used in the foreign language classroom to help students understand the differing, often culture‐specific perspectives of language use among people speaking another language. By conducting interviews, or by teaching students the interview process, instructors can provide students with a means for ascertaining how people from the target culture understand or misunderstand the…
Modifying First‐Year Textbook Dialogues along a Hymesian Model of Meaning
Many variables beyond words and grammar alone determine our understanding of speech events, or language in a given context. Speakers' “scripts” (established patterns of discourse) and “world” knowlege (the often culture‐specific understanding of verbal and nonverbal constructs) are important features of any meaningful exchange of discourse. This article contends that foreign language learners will produce a higher level of language if they are ma…
Cultural Meaning and Structure in Conversations and their Pedagogical Implications
As teachers of foreign language are becoming more aware than ever that language form, function, and cultural meaning are integrally linked, two questions arise which demand our attention: how are form, function, and meaning interconnected within target language texts, and how can knowledge of structure and meaning interrelationships be conveyed to students? To these ends, this article examines features of a German conversation, which illustrate s…
Authentic Language and Authentic Conversational Texts
Although there is a trend to advocate the use of authentic texts in the foreign language classroom, a consensus regarding the criteria determining textual authenticity has not been reached. Instead, researchers often provide varying, sometimes conflicting definitions as to what comprise authentic materials. This paper draws on research in discourse analysis in an attempt to determine text authenticity through text type authenticity and provide im…
Kriemhilt’s face work
Cultural Meaning and Structure in Conversations and their Pedagogical Implications
As teachers of foreign language are becoming more aware than ever that language form, function, and cultural meaning are integrally linked, two questions arise which demand our attention: how are form, function, and meaning interconnected within target language texts, and how can knowledge of structure and meaning interrelationships be conveyed to students? To these ends, this article examines features of a German conversation, which illustrate s…
Modifying First‐Year Textbook Dialogues along a Hymesian Model of Meaning
Many variables beyond words and grammar alone determine our understanding of speech events, or language in a given context. Speakers' “scripts” (established patterns of discourse) and “world” knowlege (the often culture‐specific understanding of verbal and nonverbal constructs) are important features of any meaningful exchange of discourse. This article contends that foreign language learners will produce a higher level of language if they are ma…
The Oral Interview and Cross‐Cultural Understanding in the Foreign Language Classroom
This article discusses cross‐cultural oral interviews and how they can be used in the foreign language classroom to help students understand the differing, often culture‐specific perspectives of language use among people speaking another language. By conducting interviews, or by teaching students the interview process, instructors can provide students with a means for ascertaining how people from the target culture understand or misunderstand the…
Psychology (5 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (4 works) · Foreign language (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Meaning (existential (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Communication (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Conversation (2 works)