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Classroom Interaction: Possibilities and Impossibilities.
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Seedhouse, Paul – ELT Journal, 1996
Examines the idea that one goal of English language teaching should be to replicate "natural" rather than "traditional" classroom communication. The article argues that this goal is unattainable and that it would be more satisfactory to take an institutional discourse approach, where classroom discourse is regarded as an institutional variety of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Students, Context Effect, Course Objectives