Task-based, face-to-face interactions

Teresa Pica championed the idea that students learn best when using a second language in task-based, face-to-face interactions. Although it flew in the face of thinking in the 1980s, that concept is now at the core of teaching and research, said Nancy Hornberger, a professor of education at Penn.

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