Publications

Publication details [#51418]

del Pilar García Mayo, María and Ana Alegría de la Colina. 2009. Oral interaction in task-based EFL learning: The use of the L1 as a cognitive tool. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 47 (3-4) : 325–345.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | cooperation | foreign language acquisition | language use | task-dependency of processing

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Annotation

This study argues that the use of a shared first language as a cognitive tool facilitates English as a foreign language collaborative classroom tasks.