Second Language Acquisition Processes in the Classroom: Learning Japanese

This book is the first study to examine how interactional style develops within the walls of a foreign language classroom in the first two years of language study. Results show learners to be highly sensitive to pragmatic information and that learners can move toward an appropriate interactional style through classroom interactive experience.

The book shows how learners are most often sources who offer assistance and correction, with errors serving most often to stimulate further thinking ...