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Nimet Çopur; Adam Brandt – Classroom Discourse, 2024
The interactional roles of smile and laughter have been widely explored in both institutional settings and mundane talk (e.g. Holt 2016; Potter and Hepburn 2010). However, the role of one specific kind of smile, what we call a 'squeezed-mouth smile' (SMS), remains unexamined. Using CA, this study explores one teacher's use of SMS in response to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Nonverbal Communication, Humor
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Flood, Virginia J.; Harrer, Benedikt W. – Classroom Discourse, 2023
We contribute a preiously unidentified way representational gestures are used to organise participation and the co-construction of knowledge in whole-class interactions in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) classrooms. Drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA), we characterise students' "gestured…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Nonverbal Communication, Teacher Response, Student Reaction
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Willemsen, Annerose; Gosen, Myrte N.; Koole, Tom; de Glopper, Kees – Classroom Discourse, 2020
This paper reports on a conversation analytic study into the pass-on turns that teachers produce to return the floor to the class following one student's contribution, in the context of whole-class discussions around texts in 4th grade history and geography lessons. These pass-on turns are remarkable, as the teachers take the turn in order to…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Teacher Student Relationship, Classroom Communication, Nonverbal Communication