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Direct linkPomerantz, Anne; Bell, Nancy D. – Applied Linguistics, 2007
In line with recent critiques of communicative language teaching (Byrnes and Maxim 2004; Byrnes 2006), this paper considers how instances of spontaneous, creative language play can afford access to a range of linguistic practices that are often devalued or ignored in classrooms. To this end, it examines how university students in an advanced…
Descriptors: Play, Semantics, Linguistics, Language Teachers
