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Making Sense of New Language: A Discourse Perspective.
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Batstone, Rob – Language Awareness, 2002
Argues that in the initial stages of learning a new form in a foreign language and its associated functions, communicative needs and learning needs are fundamentally opposed. Suggests that what is needed is an orientation to language that is based on prior familiarity with specific forms and meaning that can be used in discourse as anchors to…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Modes, Grammar, Language Processing