Abstract
This study focused on the context as the cause of communicators’ misunderstandings or insufficient grasps of events in conversations. We suggested that learners should actively and elaborately utilize the conversation context through classroom experiences dealing with conversational context. Contextualizing activity was highlighted as a constructive expressive and understanding act of learners, context sensitivity was presented as an object of the activity, and oral communication context for education was explored and displayed as a model. Continually, through conversation analysis in drama, we described characters who are and are not contextually sensitive: objective information about the interlocutor, information based on the relationship, background knowledge related to the conversation, and clues of conversation situation. Learners' doing contextualizing and cultivating context sensitivity with texts including authentic context, can help deepen their understanding of you and me, beyond understanding language and its mechanism.
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