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"Information Gap" Tasks: Do They Facilitate Second Language Acquisition?
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Doughty, Catherine; Pica, Teresa – TESOL Quarterly, 1986
Describes a study conducted to determine the effects of task type and participation pattern on language classroom interaction. Evidence suggests that tasks which require information exchange are crucial to conversational modification of classroom interaction and that group and dyad interaction patterns produce more modification than…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Research, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)