Overt and covert speech in language classrooms -- A review of corrective feedback and quantitative analysis -- Corrective feedback: Learners' and teachers' perceptions -- A review of private speech and quantitative analysis -- Private speech: Learners' and teachers' perceptions -- Reinterpreting learners' participation in JFL classrooms
Summary
This book offers an examination of the verbal participation of learners in Japanese as a Foreign Language classrooms. The verbal participation of learners in language classrooms offers a rich seam of data to the applied linguist. Overt and covert participation, when examined, can reveal both the structures of a classroom and elicit privileged information on participant's self-perceptions. This book examines the verbal participation of learners in Japanese as a Foreign Language classrooms. Verbal interactions with teachers and classmates and 'private' speech acts are examined in relation to the
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-248) and indexes
