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Information Gap in Communicative Classrooms.
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Liao, Xiaoqing – 1997
In traditional, grammar-oriented second language classrooms, the most common classroom procedure is for the teacher to ask the student a question for which the answer is already known to both. Because no real information is exchanged, this is not a communicative practice. It is alien to the real communicative needs of students, involves no…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages)