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By Nancy Bell,Anne Pomerantz

Humor within the Classroom presents functional, research-based solutions to questions that academic researchers and language lecturers may need in regards to the social and cognitive merits that humor and language play have the funds for in lecture room discourse and extra language studying. The publication considers the ways that humor, language play, and creativity can build new chances for lecture room identification, critique winning norms, and reconfigure specific family of strength. Humor within the school room encourages academic researchers and language lecturers to take a clean examine the workings of humor in today’s linguistically diversified study rooms and makes the argument for its position in construction a much better starting place for reviews of lecture room discourse, theories of extra language improvement, and techniques to language pedagogy.

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