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ERIC Number: EJ647301
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0023-8333
Task Engagement: A Turning Point in Foreign Language Development.
Platt, Elizabeth J.; Brooks, Frank B.
Language Learning, v52 n2 p365-400 Jun 2002
Uses a sociocultural framework to suggest task engagement as a viable construct in second language learning research. Examines second language learner data to identify task engagement as it emerges, unfolds in dialogic activity, and becomes associated with he transformation of task, self, and group. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Interaction, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Swahili, Task Analysis, Teacher Student Relationship, Uncommonly Taught Languages
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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