The distinctivness of foreign language classroom discourse
Resumen
The article describes the features of the pedagogical discourse specific to foreign language classes and accounts for the idea that it may be a sub-genre: on the one hand, due to the subordination of the regulating register by the instructive register and, on the other hand, due to the double control of the discourse which the teaches perform through their institutional authority as well as through the mastering of the means of expression.