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Building Common Ground in Intercultural Encounters:a Study of Classroom Interaction in an Employment Preparation Programme for Canadian Immigrants ...
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This thesis focuses on how a group of linguistically and culturally diverse individuals in an employment preparation class for immigrants to Canada use communicative strategies and resources to build common ground, that is, how they use language to form a socially cohesive group that foregrounds shared knowledge, shared relational identity, in-group membership and shared attitudes and feelings. The thesis draws from a 12-week ethnographically informed study using participant observation with audio recording and semi-structured interviews as the main methods of data collection. It builds on the combined insights drawn from the well established discipline of interethnic communication and the relatively new but growing field of research on English as a lingua franca. While the former illuminates factors that make intercultural communication problematic, the latter sheds light on what makes it work despite cultural differences and linguistic limitations. In analysing the data, which consists primarily of ...
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URL: http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/33911
https://dx.doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.00008477
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Power and Politeness: A Study of Social Interaction in Philippine Higher Education Classrooms ...
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