Second Language Learning 3
Family Environment 2
Language Maintenance 2
Language Research 2
Mandarin Chinese 2
Native Language 2
Air Transportation 1
Athletes 1
Attitudes 1
Aviation Education 1
Code Switching (Language) 1
Australian Review of Applied… 8
Caldwell, David 1
Caruso, Marinella 1
Clyne, Michael 1
Elder, Catherine 1
Kim, Hyejeong 1
Kretzenbacher, Heinz L. 1
Mahadhir, Mahanita 1
Oliver, Rhonda 1
Philp, Jenefer 1
Schupbach, Doris 1
Storch, Neomy 1
Ting, Su-Hie 1
Tognini, Rita 1
White, Erin 1
Zheng, Lin 1
Language Usage X
Interviews X
A Longitudinal Study of the Use of the First Language (L1) in French Foreign Language (FL) Classes
White, Erin; Storch, Neomy – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2012
This longitudinal study investigated teachers' use of the first language (L1) in two French foreign language (FL) intermediate level classes at two Australian universities. A native French-speaking teacher (NS) and a non-native French-speaking teacher (NNS) were observed and audio-recorded approximately every two weeks over a 12- week semester.…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, French, English (Second Language), Teacher Attitudes
Rehearsing, Conversing, Working It Out: Second Language Use in Peer Interaction
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
Towards Homogeneity in Home Languages: Malay, Chinese Foochow and Indian Tamil Families in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Ting, Su-Hie; Mahadhir, Mahanita – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2009
This preliminary study examines the languages used by parents with their children in Malay, Chinese Foochow and Indian Tamil families to find out how the similarity or dissimilarity in parents' ethnic language influenced the choice of language transmitted to children and how far standard languages have permeated the family domain in Kuching City…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Educational Background
"Working Your Words": Appraisal in the AFL Post-Match Interview
Caldwell, David – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2009
This paper explores the language used by Australian Football League (AFL) footballers and Australian Broadcast Corporation (ABC) journalists in their post-match interviews broadcast on ABC (774 Melbourne) radio. From Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), Appraisal is used to investigate the evaluative language expressed by the AFL footballers in…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Team Sports, Journalism, Athletes
Understanding Aviation English as a Lingua Franca: Perceptions of Korean Aviation Personnel
Kim, Hyejeong; Elder, Catherine – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2009
Researchers exploring the use of language use in radiotelephony communication have tended to focus on the limitations of the non-native English user and the threats which their limited control of English may pose for aviation safety (e.g. Atsushi, 2003, 2004). Hence the recent International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) policy places the onus…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Communication Problems, Focus Groups, Aviation Education
Living in Two Worlds: Code-Switching amongst Bilingual Chinese-Australian Children
Zheng, Lin – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2009
This paper is based on an analysis of interviews, conducted at three primary schools in Melbourne, which sought to explore the determinants of code-switching between English and Chinese. Specifically, it examined school education and other specific possible determinants of code switching amongst Chinese-Australian bilingual children. The specific…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Mandarin Chinese, Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism
Pronominal Address in German: Rules, Anarchy and Embarrassment Potential
Kretzenbacher, Heinz L.; Clyne, Michael; Schupbach, Doris – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2006
Choice of address forms, a socially crucial feature in German communication, is context-dependent on situations (a) where the unmarked form of address is "du" (T), (b) where it is "Sie" (V), and (c) where the two systems (a and b) coexist. The first two situations are, apart from their fuzzy edges, rather clearcut. The third situation, however,…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Figurative Language, German, English (Second Language)
Attrition in the Verb System of Italian in Australia
Caruso, Marinella – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2004
This article reports on an investigation into the loss of morphology expressing temporality in the Italian of second generation Italo-Australians. The purpose of the study is to verify whether the loss of Italian tense and aspect morphology proceeds from marked to unmarked, where markedness is defined on the basis of formal and semantic criteria.…
Descriptors: Speech, Semantics, Verbs, Oral Language