Barry Osborne

List of John Benjamins publications in which Barry Osborne is involved.

Article

Osborne, Barry and Glenn Dawes 1992 Communicative competence in an ESL task: A dilemma in a torres Strait Island class Language Teaching and Learning in Australia, Mann, Chris and Richard B. Baldauf, Jr. † (eds.), pp. 83–100 | Article

This ethnographic study is of an eleven-minute segment of an English as a Second Language lesson in a Year 8 class in Torres Strait. It focuses on a tandem activity where students are asked to get information from each other in ‘proper English sentences.’ Though the aim is laudable, the task is… read more