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McDonald, Geraldine; Le, Huong; Higgins, Joanna; Podmore, Valerie – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2005
Although schools contain many material artifacts, studies in classrooms have tended to focus on discourse and quality of social interaction even when artifacts are being used. Responding to Engstrom's (1999) invitation to take artifacts seriously, three studies are described in which a material object was essential to a classroom activity. The…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction