Advances in Spoken Discourse Analysis

Inner and outer 173

are to reply on the Inner or Outer. The class is doing some practice with the
verb ‘like’, and Virginia has just said that she likes being a learner of
English/learning English. Follow Socoop’s conversation (34) and notice the
teacher’s reaction (35). What is the reason for it? And how does the series
of exchanges finally end?

Example 6