understanding - a search for understanding which I would also wish to argue is our surest route to sensible responses to immediate practical, as well as to long-term conceptual, problems. The first position is associated with mainstream thinking about communicative language teaching, and as such it advocates the active promotion of interaction as a productive teaching technique. The second is the 'weak' form of my own 'interaction hypothesis' (Allwright, 1984a), which intends only to describe what is seen…
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