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Toth, Paul D. – Modern Language Journal, 2004
This article compares ordinary conversational topics and targeted second language (L2) forms for their effectiveness in building and maintaining classroom discourse cohesion. In this study, 16 learners participated in 2 lessons, 1 with teacher turns determined by a grammatical object of instruction, and the other with turns determined by…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Grammar, Discourse Analysis, Connected Discourse