Foreign Language Performance and Learners: Intuitions about Verbal Interaction

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https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.199411721

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The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship existing between the oral performance of a subject in a "gatekeeping" encounter such as an office appointment with a teacher and his/her definition of the situation and of the role that language plays in it. In a real context of language use, the outcome is connected with the speakers' fulfillment of the goal with which they approached the encounter, a fulfillment which does not exclusively depend on the nature of the object being negotiated but also on how it is negotiated.

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1994-12-31

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ARTICLES: Language and linguistics

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Cots, J. M. (1994). Foreign Language Performance and Learners: Intuitions about Verbal Interaction . Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 15, 125-138. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.199411721