Abstract
This study emphasizes the importance of contextual influences to the study of conversational competence development. Included in major contextual considerations is one or more significant adults whose systematic patterns of feedback teach children the rules of conversation while also providing guided practice in the use of these rules. The role of expansion is examined as one of the common systematic patterns of feedback in both adult‐child and child‐child conversations.
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