Publications

Publication details [#30554]

Wilkinson, Sharon. 2002. The Omnipresent Classroom during Summer Study Abroad: American Students in Conversation with Their French Hosts. The Modern Language Journal 86 (2) : 157–191.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | conversational analysis | ethnography | foreign language acquisition | informality

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

0026-7902

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/modl

Annotation

This study on American French foreign language use in noninstructional settings demonstrates an inappropriate transfer of didactic discourse patterns to out-of-class interactions.