Barry Pennock-Speck- English Studies
- Honorary Professor at University of Valencia
Barry Pennock-Speck
- English Studies
- Honorary Professor at University of Valencia
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Introduction
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May 2005 - present
Position
- Managing Director
Description
- I was the Director of the English and German Department from 01/06/1999 to 05/04/2006.
September 2004 - April 2005
Official Language School Sagunto
Position
- Master's Student
Education
September 1996 - September 1998
Publications
Publications (57)
In this article we conduct a meta-analysis (Timulak, 2009) of qualitative studies into computer-mediated, synchronic, oral interactions between language learners from different countries focusing primarily on Intercultural Communicative Competences (ICCs) (Byram, 1997). To find studies that met our criteria, keyword searches were conducted in Googl...
The linguistic study of peer-review discourse has focused principally on pre-publication occluded referee reports. However, there are few studies on post-publication open peer reviews of research articles. To address this imbalance, we analyse a type of open peer review, Online Rapid Responses (ORRs) to articles, in the British Medical Journal (BMJ...
In this article, we implement a Corpus Linguistics analysis to compare the differences in lexical density, lexical diversity, and lexical sophistication in the asynchronous written interactions and the synchronous spoken interactions of Japanese and Spanish University students during an English as a lingua franca telecollaborative exchange. A multi...
p class="p1">In this article, I analyse the infamous Cathy Newman interview with Jordan Peterson on the 16th of January 2018 and subsequent viewer comments on Channel 4's YouTube channel. My first hypothesis is that Newman's frequent attribution of statements to Peterson using the now notorious "so you are saying" gambit (YSG) is what triggered out...
In this article, I analyse the infamous Cathy Newman interview with Jordan Peterson on the 16th of January 2018 and subsequent viewer comments on Channel 4's YouTube channel. My first hypothesis is that Newman's frequent attribution of statements to Peterson using the now notorious "so you are saying" gambit (YSG) is what triggered outrage among Pe...
This study centres on the analysis of prosocial teasing during a videoconference (telecollaboration) exchange between mixed-gender adolescent secondary school students from Spain and Germany. We contend that the provocative elements present in prosocial teasing activate a play frame, in Gregory Bateson’s terms, in which seemingly hostile face acts...
In recent years, telecollaboration has proved to be a useful tool in the acquisition of foreign languages and intercultural communicative skills (Belz 2003b; Clavel-Arroitia, Pennock-Speck 2015a, 2015b; Hewitt, Brett 2007; O'Dowd 2007; Su et al., 2005). This paper focuses on how prepared secondary-school teachers believe they are in order to succes...
https://sites.google.com/site/tecolaproject/home/gamifiedinterculturaltelecollaborationforforeignlanguagelearningseminar
Why did different agencies, promoting diverse products, create three ads featuring violence perpetrated by women on their rather immature and submissive male partners in order to sell their products? I posit that the female viewers connect subconsciously with the image of the proactive female protagonists through the psychological mechanism in whic...
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El propósito de este proyecto es ofrecer a los estudiantes del grado de Estudios Ingleses y otras personas interesadas en la lengua inglesa la oportunidad de perfeccionar su pronunciación del inglés y/o aprender acerca del sistema fonológico del inglés. This project offers students doing a...
Using portfolios to assess Telecollaboration
Assessing Intercultural competence
Teacher assessment of telecollaboration
Asssessment of Telecollaboration through teacher report
An assessment method using interviews for Telecollaboration
Rubric for assessing intercultural competence in Telecollaboration
Using questionnaires to asses Telecollaboration
A series of videos in English and Spanish to help teachers get started with Telecollaboration. Una serie de vídeos en inglés y español para ayudar a los profesores para iniciarse en Telecolaboración.
In this article we present our research into the negotiation of meaning in two interactions involving the same 16-year old Spanish and German students based in schools in Spain and German respectively. The interactions involved two language constellations, that is, English as a lingua franca and a Spanish tandem. Our research was carried out within...
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This article centres on four-word phrase frames in British hospitality websites. Our aim is to identify those frames that are specific to this website genre, which we call target frames. Each phrase frame represents an identical sequence of words except for one variable word, that is A*BC or AB*D. The words that fi...
AbstrAct: Telecollaboration in language learning normally refers to synchronous and asynchronous tasks involving students who are located in different countries. In the TILA project the onus is on synchronous tasks to improve not only the students' linguistic abilities in a foreign language but also their intercultural competence. The project invol...
Television commercials are often thought of as bothersome multimedia artefacts that by their very existence spoil our viewing pleasure at regular intervals. Not only that, but they seem to have the habit of ordering us around. This aspect of TV ads has often been commented on by experts and laypersons alike. Therefore, we decided to tackle this iss...
In this chapter I shall describe the ways in which a group of lecturers in English language and linguistics have attempted to help students acquire competencies using ICTs in an English Studies degree programme in Spain. The introduction of competence-based learning constitutes a major paradigm shift brought about by the convergence of degree syste...
The aim of this article is to carry out a qualitative multimodal analysis of the codification of verbal and non-verbal politeness strategies in a sub-corpus of five charity commercials aired on British television. Brown and Levinson's (1987) verbal politeness strategies are taken as a starting point together with a detailed analysis of facework tha...
Preface
Why TV Commercials? Why Multimodal?
Multimodal analysis has become a buzzword in many fields of inquiry, especially what could broadly be described as the field of discourse analysis. But why devote a whole book to the multimodal analysis of television commercials? One reason may be summed up in the phrase “follow the money”; throughout t...
This article provides a critical review of some of the most relevant studies on digital storytelling and proposes a genre typology that allows an initial classification of digital storytelling into two main types: educational and social. Digital storytelling is a multimodal emergent genre characterised by its versatility and flexibility which has r...
This volume offers a state-of-the-art view of research into interdisci-plinarity, language and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) by providing an overview of teaching proposals within a university context. Interdisciplinarity is understood here as how language expresses the discourse and lexis of specialised knowledge in science, techno...
How the ear works. Part three of a film which has been subtitled in English.
Function words exercise 1. An online resource to be found at:
https://www.uv.es/anglotic/phonology/suprasegmental_phonology/function_words_videos/function_words/
How the ear works. Part oneof a film which has been subtitled in English.
How the ear works. Part two of a film which has been subtitled in English.
In this paper we report the results of a qualitative multimodal analysis of a corpus of Spanish and British TV ads featuring female hygiene products such as tampons, liners and sanitary towels/pads. We contend that advertisers of menstruation-related products employ a wide range of strategies to convey both overt information about the products adve...
Our aim in this article is to explore the paralinguistic characteristics of voices in voice-overs in a corpus of English and Spanish TV ads. Our underlying premise is that voice-overs, just like linguistic messages, images and music, convey information which is picked up by viewers whether at a conscious or subconscious level. In our analysis we at...
In this article, after a short overview of the use of ICT in English Studies at the Universitat de València and the conditions I think teachers should comply with when planning, designing, creating, monitoring and evaluating activities using ICT, I detail two of the activities I have carried out using new technologies in the obligatory fourth-year...
This research takes as its starting point a frequency analysis of the demographicspoken subcorpus of the British National Corpus in order to focus on two aspects of the evolution of spoken core vocabulary in British English. The first is the impact on the core of contact with other languages and, the second, the role of lexical innovation and/or re...
In this article we have analysed a television programme, Down Home Virginia, addressed to farmers and the general public in the state of Virginia, USA from a genre studies perspective. Down Home Virginia constitutes a mixed or hybrid genre (Bhatia, 2002) which combines news, entertainment and the promotion of agricultural products. We have centred...
In this article Discourse markers of Reformulation, as proposed in Del Saz & Fraser (2003), are analysed from a synchronic and diachronic point of view to ascertain whether their development can be explained in terms of the body of studies known as grammaticalization theory. The fact that English reformulators constitute a very heterogeneous group...
La pragmática de la interlengua, aunque de reciente aparición dentro de la teoría que explica la adquisición de una L2, ha demostrado que permite analizar el comportamiento pragmalingüístico de los hablantes no-nativos de una lengua de modo más preciso que otras aproximaciones sociopragmáticas. A través de los resultados de una investigación empíri...
This article analyses how non-native speakers of English can benefit from native-speakers written strategies when composing a text at university level. Several strategies are proposed, including lexical bundles, all of which contribute to create cohesion and coherence.
