Gayle L Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5997497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gayle L Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gayle L |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON G L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Identity Construction as Nexus of Multimembership: Attempts at Reconciliation Through an Online Intercultural Communication Course
Using situated learning (Lave & Wenger, 1991 Lave, J. and Wenger, E. 1991. Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) and communities of practice (Wenger, 1998 Wenger, E. 1998. Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) as our theoretical framework, we focused on two female…
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Strategy Use in Egyptian Arabic and American English Refusals
This study investigated similarities and differences between Egyptian Arabic and American English refusals using a modified version of the discourse completion test (DCT) developed by Beebe et al. (1990). Thirty US interviews resulted in 298 refusals and 25 Egyptian interviews resulted in 250 refusals. Each refusal was divided into its component strategies. Data were analysed to compare the average frequencies of direct and indirect strategies, t…
Directness vs. indirectness: Egyptian Arabic and US English communication style
A Cross-cultural Study of Mexico and the United States: Perceived Roles of Teachers
The high school graduation rate for Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the United States is approximately 50%. This qualitative study investigated one area that may affect Mexicans ’ performance in American schools: cultural differences in appropriate school behaviour. Interview data were collected from 40 students and 20 teachers in Mexico in Spanish by native Spanish speakers, and from 20 native English-speaking students, 20 Mexican ESL students…
Intercultural communication and related courses taught in tesol masters' degree programs
Arabic and English Compliment Responses: Potential for Pragmatic Failure
This study investigated similarities and differences between Syrian and American compliment responses Interviews with Americans yielded 87 compliment/compliment response sequences and interviews with Syrians resulted in 52 sequences Americans were interviewed in English and Syrians in Arabic Data consisted of demographic information and transcriptions of the sequences The entire set of data was examined recursively This examination suggested thre…
Hispanic/Anglo-American differences in attributions to paralinguistic behavior
Egyptian and American compliments: A cross-cultural study
Peer Response Groups: Do L2 Writers Use Peer Comments in Revising Their Drafts
The relationship between the use of personal, cultural examples in international teaching assistants' lectures and uncertainty reduction, student attitude, student recall, and ethnocentrism
ESL Reading: Schema Theory and Standardized Tests
U The term schema refers to the mental organization of an individual's past experience (Bartlett, 1932). Schema theory, based on the psycholinguistic model of reading (Coady, 1979), views reading as an interaction between the readers' background knowledge and the reading text. As Pearson-Casanave (1984) points out, the text does not carry meaning; it provides clues that enable readers to construct meaning from existing knowledge. The text activat…
Directness vs. indirectness: Egyptian Arabic and US English communication style
Egyptian and American compliments: A cross-cultural study
Peer Response Groups: Do L2 Writers Use Peer Comments in Revising Their Drafts
Hispanic/Anglo-American differences in attributions to paralinguistic behavior
The relationship between the use of personal, cultural examples in international teaching assistants' lectures and uncertainty reduction, student attitude, student recall, and ethnocentrism
Intercultural communication and related courses taught in tesol masters' degree programs
ESL Reading: Schema Theory and Standardized Tests
U The term schema refers to the mental organization of an individual's past experience (Bartlett, 1932). Schema theory, based on the psycholinguistic model of reading (Coady, 1979), views reading as an interaction between the readers' background knowledge and the reading text. As Pearson-Casanave (1984) points out, the text does not carry meaning; it provides clues that enable readers to construct meaning from existing knowledge. The text activat…
The relationship between the use of personal, cultural examples in international teaching assistants' lectures and uncertainty reduction, student attitude, student recall, and ethnocentrism
Hispanic/Anglo-American differences in attributions to paralinguistic behavior
Egyptian and American compliments: A cross-cultural study
Peer Response Groups: Do L2 Writers Use Peer Comments in Revising Their Drafts
Arabic and English Compliment Responses: Potential for Pragmatic Failure
This study investigated similarities and differences between Syrian and American compliment responses Interviews with Americans yielded 87 compliment/compliment response sequences and interviews with Syrians resulted in 52 sequences Americans were interviewed in English and Syrians in Arabic Data consisted of demographic information and transcriptions of the sequences The entire set of data was examined recursively This examination suggested thre…
Intercultural communication and related courses taught in tesol masters' degree programs
A Cross-cultural Study of Mexico and the United States: Perceived Roles of Teachers
The high school graduation rate for Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the United States is approximately 50%. This qualitative study investigated one area that may affect Mexicans ’ performance in American schools: cultural differences in appropriate school behaviour. Interview data were collected from 40 students and 20 teachers in Mexico in Spanish by native Spanish speakers, and from 20 native English-speaking students, 20 Mexican ESL students…
Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Strategy Use in Egyptian Arabic and American English Refusals
This study investigated similarities and differences between Egyptian Arabic and American English refusals using a modified version of the discourse completion test (DCT) developed by Beebe et al. (1990). Thirty US interviews resulted in 298 refusals and 25 Egyptian interviews resulted in 250 refusals. Each refusal was divided into its component strategies. Data were analysed to compare the average frequencies of direct and indirect strategies, t…
Directness vs. indirectness: Egyptian Arabic and US English communication style
Identity Construction as Nexus of Multimembership: Attempts at Reconciliation Through an Online Intercultural Communication Course
Using situated learning (Lave & Wenger, 1991 Lave, J. and Wenger, E. 1991. Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) and communities of practice (Wenger, 1998 Wenger, E. 1998. Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) as our theoretical framework, we focused on two female…
Psychology (10 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Arabic (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)