Alla Tovares
Biographic Data
| ID | 74774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alla Tovares |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alla |
| FAMILY NAME | Tovares |
| SIGNATURE | TOVARES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of English, Howard University Locke Hall 232, 2441 6th Street, NW Washington DC 20059 USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Performing friendship in a lab setting: Advice in troubles talk between friends
Interactions recorded in lab settings have been of little interest to sociolinguists who tend to favor "naturalistic" discourse. The focus on obtaining "natural" speech, however, has both limited the types of data used in sociolinguistic research and created methodological difficulties. This article demonstrates how lab-recorded interactions-viewed as performance-can lend valuable insights into how research participants display (normative) behavi…
English in language ideologies, attitudes, and educational practices in Kenya and South Africa
In this paper we discuss language-in-education practices, along with the ideologies and attitudes that undergird them, in the two countries. The focus is on the ideology of development, the essence of which is captured in the second epigraph: An education through the medium of English brings about employment, literacy, and development, personal success and upward social mobility. We discuss these presumed outcomes in the context of Kenya and Sout…
Performing friendship in a lab setting: Advice in troubles talk between friends
Interactions recorded in lab settings have been of little interest to sociolinguists who tend to favor "naturalistic" discourse. The focus on obtaining "natural" speech, however, has both limited the types of data used in sociolinguistic research and created methodological difficulties. This article demonstrates how lab-recorded interactions-viewed as performance-can lend valuable insights into how research participants display (normative) behavi…
English in language ideologies, attitudes, and educational practices in Kenya and South Africa
In this paper we discuss language-in-education practices, along with the ideologies and attitudes that undergird them, in the two countries. The focus is on the ideology of development, the essence of which is captured in the second epigraph: An education through the medium of English brings about employment, literacy, and development, personal success and upward social mobility. We discuss these presumed outcomes in the context of Kenya and Sout…
English in language ideologies, attitudes, and educational practices in Kenya and South Africa
In this paper we discuss language-in-education practices, along with the ideologies and attitudes that undergird them, in the two countries. The focus is on the ideology of development, the essence of which is captured in the second epigraph: An education through the medium of English brings about employment, literacy, and development, personal success and upward social mobility. We discuss these presumed outcomes in the context of Kenya and Sout…
Performing friendship in a lab setting: Advice in troubles talk between friends
Interactions recorded in lab settings have been of little interest to sociolinguists who tend to favor "naturalistic" discourse. The focus on obtaining "natural" speech, however, has both limited the types of data used in sociolinguistic research and created methodological difficulties. This article demonstrates how lab-recorded interactions-viewed as performance-can lend valuable insights into how research participants display (normative) behavi…
Context (archaeology (2 works) · Advice (programming (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (1 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (1 works) · Elite (1 works) · Epigraph (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Focus (optics (1 works) · Friendship (1 works)