Discourse Patterns in First Language Use at Hcme and Second Language Learning at School: an Ethnographic Approach

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raising y□ur hand to be given a turn and then sake one of these requests'
(Xehan, quoted in Cazden,1983:40>, but the practice should be encouraged
in small group work.

The potential of small group classroom organization should be explored,
particularly with groups of pupils of different ages and grades: older
children could perform the role of more competent partners in learning
and in experiencing new tasks, as they do at home (Jordan et al._t 1981).

The problems Involved in the appropriate pedagogical use of descriptive
and comparative studies of home and school interaction have been already
indicated (pages 123 to 125). But, as the actual mediator between the two
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settings is not the researcher but the teacher, the attention would be
focused now on teachers.

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