spontaneous interaction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofspontaneousandinteraction
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spontaneous
adjective
uk/spɒnˈteɪ.ni.əs/us/spɑːnˈteɪ.ni.əs/
happening or done in a natural, often sudden way, without any planning or without ...
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interaction
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌɪn.təˈræk.ʃən/us/ˌɪn.t̬ɚˈræk.ʃən/
an occasion when two or more people or things communicate with or react to ...
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Spontaneousinteractionand elicited production are clearly separated.
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During these activities, there isspontaneousinteractionbetween children and between children and teacher.
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It may be that the analysis of children's production of intonation and orientation to others' use of intonation inspontaneousinteractionwill reveal a somewhat different picture.
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Asynchronous meetings are a good option when reflected input is required rather than instantspontaneousinteraction.
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Synchronous meetings provide for immediate,spontaneousinteractionbetween participants.
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The number of all (licit and illicit) object omissions in spontaneous interactions amounts to 25.3% in group 1 and 3.9% in group 2.
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In spite of all the difficulties and obstacles in obtaining data in these institutions, the authors have succeeded in tape-recording an amazing amount of authentic, spontaneous interactions.
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Language research, like language learning, thrives on data collected from spontaneous interactions in naturally occurring situations.
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By having the parents record weekly in the infant's home we were able to capture spontaneous interactions with her parents and spontaneous non-social play (infant vocalizing alone).
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In the present study, we only consider spontaneous interactions since the bilingual data represent recordings of spontaneous speech and the elicited production task affected the children's behavior.
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Improvisation and creativity are not the property of a few professional artists or scientists but the essence of all our natural, spontaneous interactions.
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Each stage is more highly ordered and results from spontaneous interactions between products of the previous stage and the initial source is the genetic information represented by the polypeptide sequences.
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The application is designed to connect people with their real-life friends in a more meaningful way, encouraging spontaneous interactions, especially when they are out and about.
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