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This report describes how I introduced a task-based process with my intermediate level students, wherein teacher explanations of problematic language are replaced by a joint learner-teacher investigation of concordance samples of real language. Thus the topic of the task is an aspect of language itself; exploring the concordance samples generates both spontaneous and planned interaction.
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Sheehan, R. (2005). Language as Topic: Learner-Teacher Investigation of Concordances. In: Edwards, C., Willis, J. (eds) Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230522961_5
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