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Publication details [#53702]

Basturkmen, Helen, Jenefer Philp and Susan Walter. 2010. Peer interaction in the foreign language classroom: what factors foster a focus on form? Language Awareness 19 (4) : 261–279.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | foreign language acquisition | form | peer group | task-dependency of processing

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study discusses how students' preparedness to attend to difficulties with French as a foreign language form during peer task-based interaction in tertiary classrooms is influenced both by the task and by social considerations.