Popis: |
The concept of grounding (Clark and Schaefer, 1989), or the process by which people gain confidence in mutual understanding by providing each other with positive evidence of understanding, may prove to be an invaluable tool for English language teachers in Japanese elementary schools. This is because it may well help teachers more clearly understand certain curriculum goals, more easily gradestudent ability, and more readily tweak textbook interactions so that students are encouraged to show more positive evidence of understanding to one another. |