Interaction or interrogation? a study of talk occurring in a sample of the 1992 VCE Italian oral common assessment task (cat 2) Filipi, Anna,, 21, 123-137 (1998), doi = https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.21.2.07fil, publicationName = John Benjamins, issn = 0155-0640, abstract= The study reported in this paper examined turn-taking and sequence organisation in a sample of twenty-one interactions derived from the 1992 Victorian Certificate of Education Italian oral Common Assessment Task. The most common adjacency pair was found to be the question and answer, the assessor having the right to ask questions and the student to answer. Student initiated questions occurred in five environments and only when conditions were created for them to do so. The assessor’s role was to open and close sequences and sections and to initiate topics principally through the question. Two types of sequences were identified, question/answer and expanded sequences. It was found that there were two groups of assessors. Those who predominantly set up question/answer sequences, and those who set up post sequences., language=, type=