Discusses ways in which classroom communication can be stimulated by encouraging students to talk about their positive emotions and points out the dangers of encouraging students to voice negative emotions. Describes two classroom activities that encourage positive emotions. (SED)

Student talk about mathematics will improve understanding. Ways that teachers can facilitate more student talk in their classrooms are presented. (PK)

Because use of computers in second-language classrooms may tend to decrease interpersonal interaction, and therefore communication, ways to promote interaction are offered. These include small group computer projects, and suggestions are made for use with various computer functions and features: tutorials, word processing, voice recording,…

The first two stages of a research project on the teaching of second languages in Scotland using the communicative approach are reported. In the first stage, 59 language teachers in 20 schools were interviewed concerning their understanding of the notion of communicative competence and its development in the classroom. In the second stage, French…