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The development of conversational abilities in the second language depends upon the appropriation of both cognitive and communicative skills, in addition to overall linguistic improvement. In terms of needed skills, speaking is often considered at the expense of listening, which has long been thought of as a passive exercise. However, listening and speaking must be developed together as active discursive practice, that is, in the same way in which they are used in conversation. The focus of the present project is to investigate whether or not students can be taught to use a specific linguistic tool, a feature of private speech known as repetition, as a cognitive and communicative resource in order to facilitate their interactions with other learners. Analysis of students’ production in several different classroom tasks suggests that learners are able to use repetition for a number of communicative and cognitive functions, in response to instruction and extended practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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