“…I examined a range of interactional features in Tamara's classroom discourse, such as IRF patterns, display versus referential questions, extended teacher turns, feedback, clarification requests, and confirmation checks, and sought to establish the extent to which these adhered to the pedagogic goals of a given mode and thus, as is assumed by Walsh, contributed to the construction of learning opportunities. Extending Walsh's () approach and drawing on elements of CA, which, as Kasper () maintains, has the “capacity to examine in detail how opportunities for L2 learning arise in interactional activities” (p. 83), I was further interested in establishing how participants, and the teacher in particular, oriented to these interactional situations and what they themselves came to treat as learning opportunities (Kasper, ; Lee, ; Waring, ). To this end, I subjected sample excerpts of Tamara's TLD data across interactional modes to a fine‐grained analysis of how each turn was produced and received by all discourse participants by paying attention to turn construction, word choice, pause, and the like (cf.…”