Taking and Keeping the Floor in the Elementary Foreign-Language Classroom: The Strategies of One Child.

Bacon, Susan M.

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ERIC Number: EJ424573

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1991

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Taking and Keeping the Floor in the Elementary Foreign-Language Classroom: The Strategies of One Child.

Bacon, Susan M.

Hispania, v74 n1 p163-74 Mar 1991

Describes how one second-language student gained the opportunity for oral practice in a formal classroom setting. The study, performed in a classroom that had virtually no contact with the target culture, involves observations of various displays of responses from initiations by the teacher and from the student. (46 references) (GLR)

Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Elementary School Students, Ethnography, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Student Participation, Teacher Student Relationship, Verbal Communication

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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