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Tuire Oittinen – Classroom Discourse, 2024
This paper investigates the accomplishment of highlighting in multiparty video-mediated learning activities. The focus is on moments of screen sharing and the verbal, embodied, and digital resources participants deploy to draw joint attention to a referent on screen. Drawing on screen recorded data (90 h) from an adult education setting (i.e.…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Adult Education, Learning Activities, Attention
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Gosen, Myrte N.; Berenst, Jan; de Glopper, Kees – Classroom Discourse, 2015
This paper reports on a conversation analytic study of problem-solving interactions during shared reading at three kindergartens in the Netherlands. It illustrates how teachers and pupils discuss book characters' problems that arise in the events in the picture books. A close analysis of the data demonstrates that problem-solving interactions do…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Problem Solving, Interaction, Reading Aloud to Others
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Hellermann, John; Thorne, Steven L.; Fodor, Peter – Classroom Discourse, 2017
Literacy, and particularly reading, is critical to success in schooling and full participation in contemporary societies. As one of the primary skills needed to develop proficiency in a language, the study of reading in additional languages has attracted significant research attention. Focusing on behaviourally visible and locally occasioned…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Aloud to Others, English Language Learners, Handheld Devices
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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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Cowan, Kate – Classroom Discourse, 2014
Video is an increasingly popular data collection tool for those undertaking social research, offering a temporal, sequential, fine-grained record which is durable, malleable and sharable. These characteristics make video a valuable resource for researching Early Years classrooms, particularly with regard to the study of children's interaction in…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Early Childhood Education, Interaction, Child Behavior
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Kayi-Aydar, Hayriye – Classroom Discourse, 2013
The current study, drawing on Positioning Theory, presents an analysis of various storylines of classroom interaction to illustrate how an adult ESL learner positioned himself and others in an academic oral skills class. Through a recursive micro-analysis of classroom talk, the findings demonstrate how this outspoken student shaped classroom…
Descriptors: Interaction, Adult Learning, English (Second Language), Oral Language
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Sharma, Bal Krishna – Classroom Discourse, 2012
Using conversation analysis as a methodological and analytical framework, this study presents a sequential analysis of disagreement episodes in small group interactions in an advanced academic writing class. Closer scrutiny of the sequences reveals that in order to bring disagreements to a close, participants make use of an array of interactional…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Content Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Collaborative Writing
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Ziegler, Gudrun; Sert, Olcay; Durus, Natalia – Classroom Discourse, 2012
This paper investigates the use of multilingual resources by plurilingual participants in two English language classrooms in Luxembourg. Using Conversation Analysis and drawing on transcriptions of video-recordings, we present three examples of student use of multilingual resources and their respective teacher next turn management (through…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Video Technology
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Kääntä, Leila – Classroom Discourse, 2012
This paper describes how teachers employ gaze, head nods and pointing gestures in allocating response turns to students in whole-class instructional interaction. Specifically, it focuses on examining teachers' embodied allocations--that is, turn-allocations produced (mostly) by embodied means--and the sequential positions in which they are…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Nonverbal Communication, Responses, Teacher Student Relationship