“…Typically, during class interactions, conflict situations occur that require teachers' communicative competence to manage them effectively. The use of expressive, spontaneous, safe, and influential language is preferred over other courses of action (Terroni, 2009). The range of interventions a teacher prepares includes such mild responses as moving closer to the student, making eye contact, or giving a knowing glance, using a corrective consequence, or even ignoring the behavior if it self-corrects (Everston & Poole, 2008).…”