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The chapter traces the use of allusions to common experience from their beginnings in the case study group. They show that it is often moments where the learners’ shortcomings in linguistic competence are revealed which provide the inspiration for play. Thus, failure, with its potential for face-threat and humiliation, can be transformed into something celebratory and act as an affirming social glue within the group. A number of threads are explored from the moment they were first seeded and are shown to develop and flower through repeated reference to them. Thus, significant cultural reference points are woven into the fabric of communication within the group. These references can, through repetition, become ritualised and mythologised and thus form part of the group’s developing culture.
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Hann, D. (2020). Prior Talk: A Key Resource for Play. In: Spontaneous Play in the Language Classroom. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26304-1_7
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