Introducing language use and interaction as the basis of good teaching and learning, this
invaluable book equips teachers and researchers with the tools to analyze classroom …

This quasi-experimental study investigated the potential benefits of two corrective feedback
techniques (recasts and prompts) for learners of different proficiency levels. Sixty-four …

We share an interest in language. We want to understand it, its origins, structure, functions,
use, acquisition, instruction, and change. We seek causes for observed effects. Scientific …

Second language acquisition researchers have claimed that feedback provided during
conversational interaction facilitates second language (L2) acquisition. A number of …

In the current research climate favoring rigorous experimental studies of instructional scripts
using randomly chosen treatment and control groups, education and literacy researchers …

A number of descriptive studies of language classrooms have identified recasts as a
frequent form of feedback used by teachers following learners' nontarget‐like oral …

Communicative tasks are defined as activities in which meaning is primary, there is a goal
which needs to be worked toward, there is a real world relationship and the interaction …

. Setting up the problem: Interaction and understanding in talk between native and non-
native speakers This book explores the interaction between native and non-native speakers …

Although a number of studies have associated recasts with second language development,
the actual mechanisms by which recasts work to impact learning are still little understood. In …

Since Long first proposed his Interaction Hypothesis in 1980, much research in second
language acquisition (SLA) has investigated the role that interaction plays in the …