What is it about?
This study examines word search practices that turn into language learning experiences. The study explores how participants enter word searches and transform them into language learning experiences. It reveals that, despite limited linguistic competence, the tutee is an interactionally competent speaker who uses word searches as an interactional resource to solve communication breakdowns.
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Why is it important?
The study helps to explore an L2 learner’s learning behaviors emerging in interaction. A better understanding of interactional resources for L2 use and learning in different L2 contexts across various languages can inform teaching and learning practices.
Perspectives
Research show how L2 learners’ new vocabulary learning occurs through extended interaction with their co-participants. Accordingly this study is a good example to show how language learners are able to access the semantic content of new lexical items through their engagement in interaction.
Parvaneh Rezaee
University of Hawaii System
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This page is a summary of: Word searches in Persian tutoring sessions, Applied Pragmatics, August 2020, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/ap.19016.rez.
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