Sentence examples for discourse tasks from inspiring English sources

The two types of learning activity involve different, but complementary types of work: in the discourse tasks, the focus is primarily on function, whereas in the corpus tasks, it is on form.

In this study, 51 preschool children (M age = 52.80 months) and their mothers took part in two discourse tasks (a reminiscing task and a storybook reading), and both tasks were coded for the emotional content and style of the discourse and for the emotional quality of the interaction between the mother and child.

Each group behaved consistently in the two discourse tasks: NHP used 2 argument structures most frequently, followed by 1 argument and 0 argument structures, whilst PWA used 1 argument structures most frequently, followed by 2 argument and 0 argument structures (see Figures 1 and 2).

The transcripts used for the reliability assessment were selected randomly from each discourse task (frog story, personal narrative, magnet task, and home explanation), so all were equally represented.

This study focuses on four of them: (a) Written Discourse Completion Tasks, (b) Oral Discourse Completion Tasks, (c) Discourse Role-Play Tasks (DRPT), and (d) Role-Play Self-Assessments.

Performance was measured based on a pre, immediate and delayed post test structure using Discourse Completion Tasks (DCTs).

The responses to the scenarios on the pre-, post-, and follow-up discourse completion tasks were transcribed by the researcher.

Then, respectively one week following intervention in week six and at the end of semester in week 16, the post-test and follow-up test discourse completion tasks were administered to language learners in both groups.

The study employed a speech production task via a computer-delivered aural discourse completion task comprising two each of thanking, apology, and refusal scenarios.

They were asked to complete a dialogue as a Discourse Completion Task in English.

Learner data were collected in a pretest-posttest design, using a modified oral Discourse Completion Task (DCT).