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Second-language Acquisition, Social Interaction, and the Classroom.
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Pica, Teresa – Applied Linguistics, 1987
Data are presented to illustrate how confirmation and comprehension checks and clarification requests develops second-language skills (comprehension and production). Absence of these interactional features in the classroom reflects the unequal participant relationships which are shaped by classroom activities. Two activities (in appendix) were…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses