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The Use of Humour in the Off-Task Spaces of the Language Classroom
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Victoria, Mabel – ELT Journal, 2019
The focal point of most investigations into classroom discourse tends to be on the institutionally sanctioned and legitimized on-task exchanges between teachers and students with particular attention to the I-R-F (initiation-response-follow up/feedback) structure. Liminal spaces of interaction such as during the small talk just before the 'lesson…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction