Developing Academic Interactional Competence in Saudi EFL classrooms

• Dates: 2024
• Primary investigator: Dr Clare Wright (Linguistics & Phonetics)
• Co-investigators: Aljuhara Alhosseini (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
• Language at Leeds satellites: Centre for Excellence in Language Teaching (CELT); Pedagogical Linguistics
• Language at Leeds themes: Language learning and teaching

Building on a new model for developing effective strategies for academic interactional competence (AIC, Wright et al., 2022), this project evaluates the impact of explicit and implicit teaching interventions on developing AIC in Saudi L2 English college-level classrooms.