English Language GCSE
Adjacency pair
What Adjacency pair means in English Language GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Adjacency pair
A sequence of two related utterances by two different speakers (e.g., Question/Answer, Greeting/Greeting).
Topics that use Adjacency pair
- Responding to spoken language (OCR GCSE)
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Using Adjacency pair in the exam
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