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Houen, S.; Danby, S.; Farrell, A.; Thorpe, K. – Classroom Discourse, 2019
Teachers' interactional practices shape children's displays of knowledge. Teachers often rely on direct interactional devices, such as questions, to call for knowledge displays from children. However, case examples suggest that interactional strategies that downgrade teachers' expert status, such as 'I wonder…' formulations may enhance child…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Teaching Methods, Case Studies, Video Technology
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Moro, Luciana; Mortimer, Eduardo F.; Tiberghien, Andrée – Classroom Discourse, 2020
The aim of this study is to better understand how teachers use various embodied semiotic modes -- speech, gestures, gaze, and proxemics -- when they present scientific content to the entire class. To analyse the multimodal practices of these teachers, we integrated the social semiotic theory of multimodality and the joint action theory in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods, Nonverbal Communication
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Chun, Christian W. – Classroom Discourse, 2020
Aside from mentioning possible issues of hidden identities and curriculum development relating to anorexia, little research has been done exploring how discourses of eating disorders and images of the body have been mediated by teachers and learners in the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) classroom. Drawing upon an ethnographic EAP classroom…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Curriculum Development, Eating Disorders, Discourse Analysis
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Kern, Friederike; Ohlhus, Sören – Classroom Discourse, 2017
Fluency plays an important and largely unreflected role as a diagnostic tool in learning interactions. In our paper, we present a case study of videographed remedial lessons in mathematics, addressing the question of how useful the concept of fluency is for a description of learning as an observable and accountable interactive process. The concept…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Learning Processes, Language Fluency, Case Studies
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Tai, Kevin W. H.; Brandt, Adam – Classroom Discourse, 2018
Previous research has illustrated that learner initiatives have the potential to generate learning opportunities in second language (L2) classrooms. Despite a small body of recent research indicating that teachers' responses to learner initiatives play a significant role in facilitating learning opportunities in teacher-student interactions, more…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ball, Cheryl E. – Classroom Discourse, 2014
This article examines how an online scholarly journal, "Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy," mentors authors to revise their webtexts (interactive, digital media scholarship) for publication. Using an editorial pedagogy in which multimodal and rhetorical genre theories are merged with revision techniques found in process-based…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Periodicals, Mentors
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Evnitskaya, Natalia; Berger, Evelyne – Classroom Discourse, 2017
Drawing on recent conversation-analytic and socio-interactionist research on students' participation in L1 and L2 classroom interaction in teacher-fronted activities, this paper makes a step further by presenting an exploratory study of students' displays of willingness to participate (WTP) in classroom interaction and pedagogical activities…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Discourse Analysis, Classroom Communication, Teacher Student Relationship
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Can Daskin, Nilüfer – Classroom Discourse, 2015
This study investigated the interactional patterns for shaping learner contributions in an EFL classroom with reference to Walsh's classroom interactional competence (CIC). In doing so, an EFL class at an English preparatory school in a Turkish state university was both videotaped and audiotaped in the course of six classroom hours. Conversation…
Descriptors: Interaction, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Video Technology
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Chavez, Monika – Classroom Discourse, 2016
This study investigates how three teachers differed in the amount of first language (L1; here, English) they used during teacher-led instruction in a foreign language (FL; here, German) class and whether differences in the three teachers' L1 were associated with similar differences in their respective students' L1 use, both during teacher-led…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Classroom Communication, Native Language, English
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Nguyen, Hanhthi; Yang, Lajlim – Classroom Discourse, 2015
This case study examines the classroom participation of a Korean queer (transgender) learner of English as a second language at a language institute for international adult students in the United States. To understand the dynamics of this learner's participation, we focus on how she constructed gender identity and learner identity in interaction.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Foreign Students