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Pallotti, Gabriele. 2019. Assessing Tasks: The Case of Interactional Difficulty. Applied Linguistics 40 (1) : 176–197.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
assessment | definition | interaction | native speaker | orality | second language acquisition | task-dependency of processing
Place, Publisher
Oxford University Press
Journal WWW
http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper is a conceptual and methodological study of a novel construct, task interactional difficulty (TID), and of a potential approach to valuing task demands in general. The TID notion is assayed, first by revising former SLA inquiry, then by evolving a formal theoretical definition.