Publications

Publication details [#10690]

Faerch, Claus. 1987. Focus shifts in FL classroom discourse. In Lörscher, Wolfgang and Rainer Schulze, eds. Perspectives on language in performance: Studies in linguistics, criticism, and language teaching and learning. To honour Werner Hüllen on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Gunter Narr. pp. 1226–1249.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | foreign language teaching

Annotation

Given a unit of foreign language class discourse between teacher and learner which can be characterized as predominantly 'content talk', 'meta talk', or 'practice', how stable is the focus on non-linguistic content, metalinguistic content, or skill, respectively?