Activity
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Category
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Definition
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Outside
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1. Outside
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Any interaction that is not concerned with interacting in order to carry out the defined task, e.g., talk about last night’s party.
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Non-task-focussed
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2. Social relation
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Interaction concerned with managing the students’ social relations with respect to the task, e.g., greeting, leave-taking, politeness.
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3. Interaction management
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Interaction concerned with managing the interaction itself, e.g., coordination (who will speak and who will not), establishing contact, topic shifting.
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Task-focussed
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4. Task management
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Management of the progression of the task itself, e.g., planning what is to be discussed, establishing whether problem is solved or not.
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5. Opinions
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Interaction concerned with expressing opinions about the topic of discussion, e.g., beliefs, acceptances.
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6. Argumentation
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Expression of (counter-) arguments directly related to a thesis, or theses themselves, e.g., requests for justification
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7. Broaden and deepen
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Interaction concerned with (counter-)arguments linked to (counter-) arguments, argumentative relations and the meaning of arguments themselves, e.g., elaborations of arguments, definition.
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