Oral interaction in language teaching: contribution of a research study about conversational interruptions

Los planteamientos que para la enseñanza de idiomas ha introducido recientemente el MCERL incorporan un énfasis especial en la destreza de la interacción conversacional. Sin duda, la puesta en práctica de los nuevos enfoques comunicativos, funcionales e interculturales requiere prestar atención a esta tipología textual, cuyo estudio es relativamente escaso tanto en el ámbito de las ciencias del lenguaje como en el de la didáctica de las lenguas, motivos por los cuales nuestro trabajo pretende ofrecer líneas de actuación en este último ámbito, derivadas en parte de los datos de una investigación sobre el intercambio conversacional y el funcionamiento de las interrupciones. ABSTRACT: Recent approaches to second/foreign language teaching introduced by the CEFRL include a special emphasis on conversational interaction. Implementing new communicative, functional and intercultural approaches undoubtedly requires paying attention to this textual typology, whose study is relatively scarce, both in language sciences and language didactics. For this reason, our paper aims to offer some courses of action in language didactics partly derived from a research on conversational exchanges and the role of interruptions.Recent approaches to second/foreign language teaching introduced by the CEFRL include a special emphasis on conversational interaction. Implementing new communicative, functional and intercultural approaches undoubtedly requires paying attention to this textual typology, whose study is relatively scarce, both in language sciences and language didactics. For this reason, our paper aims to offer some courses of action in language didactics partly derived from a research on conversational exchanges and the role of interruption