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Konzett-Firth, Carmen – Classroom Discourse, 2020
This paper shows how a language teacher and her students observably recalibrate their interactional behaviour over time. With respect to the students, this recalibration can be interpreted as increased L2 interactional competence. The participants' turn designs indicate that they are contingent upon: 1) the local interactional context; 2) the…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French
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Bonacina-Pugh, Florence – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
This paper revisits the notion of 'legitimate language' [e.g. Bourdieu 1977. "The Economics of Linguistic Exchange." "Social Science Information" 16 (6): 645-668] as it relates to multilingualism in educational contexts. Since Heller [1996. "Legitimate Language in a Multilingual School." "Linguistics and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Language Usage
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Jean-Pierre, Marky – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
This article assesses the position of post-colonial societies within a neoliberal paradigm through an analysis of the role of language in education and the importance of adequate academic preparation for social development. Generally, teacher-student interactions constitute the foundational substance of learning processes. Since education revolves…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Creoles, Language of Instruction, Social Development
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Petitjean, Cécile; González-Martínez, Esther – Classroom Discourse, 2015
This article deals with communicative functions of laughter and smiling in the classroom studied using a conversation analytical approach. Analysing a corpus of video-recorded French first-language lessons, we show how students sequentially organise laughter and smiling, and use them to preempt, solve or assess a problematic action. We also focus…
Descriptors: French, Humor, Discourse Analysis, Video Technology
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Gajo, Laurent; Berthoud, Anne-Claude – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
This article aims at a better understanding of the role played by multilingualism and language in general in the process of scientific knowledge construction. By analysing various cases of multilingual communication in different universities and subjects (marketing, physics, law), we propose to focus on two parameters: the language regime and the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Multilingualism, Language Role, Universities
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Arend, Béatrice; Sunnen, Patrick – IAFOR Journal of Language Learning, 2017
Our paper provides an empirically based perspective on the contribution of Conversation Analysis (CA) to our understanding of children's second language learning practices in a multilingual classroom setting. While exploring the interactional configuration of a French second language learning activity, we focus our analytic lens on how five…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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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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Petitjean, Cécile – Classroom Discourse, 2014
This study focuses on the interactional processes by which participants make institutionally relevant some ways to take turns in the classroom, which is one of the first places where youth have to respect institutional constraints regarding their interactional practices. These constraints, which are reconfigured online through conversationalists'…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, French, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Zuniga, Michael; Simard, Daphnée – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
Discourse features that promote the generation of interactionally modified input and output, such as negotiation for meaning, have been shown to significantly enhance second language acquisition. Research has also identified several characteristics of instructional practices that render them more or less propitious to the generation of these…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Inceoglu, Solène – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2015
This article explores the use of gesture by a French language teacher during lexical focus on form (FonF). The analysis compares pre-emptive FonF (before a problem in communication has occurred), and reactive FonF (after a problem has occurred) and looks at the differences between teacher-initiated and learner-initiated FonF in the use and type of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French, Language Teachers
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Bonacina, Florence; Gafaranga, Joseph – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2011
The aim of this paper is to account for language choice and alternation phenomena we have observed in a French complementary school classroom in Scotland. In this classroom, talk can be conducted in French (the official medium of instruction), in English (the other language in contact) and in both French and English. A critical review of the…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Classroom Communication, Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction
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Rolin-Ianziti, Jeanne – Language Teaching Research, 2010
The present study uses a conversation analytic framework to examine the organization of a type of classroom talk: the delayed correction sequence. Such talk occurs when teacher and students interactively correct errors after the students have completed a communicative activity. This study investigates naturally occurring instances of correction…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis
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Mondada, Lorenza; Doehler, Simona Pekarek – Modern Language Journal, 2004
This article provides an empirically based perspective on the contribution of conversation analysis (CA) and sociocultural theory to our understanding of learners' second language (L2) practices within what we call a strong socio-interactionist perspective. It explores the interactive (re)configuration of tasks in French second language…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Classroom Communication, Sociocultural Patterns, French
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Amador Moreno, Carolina P.; O'Riordan, Stephanie; Chambers, Angela – ReCALL, 2006
While language teacher education programmes and language syllabi in secondary education encourage the use of the target language in the classroom, resources to support teachers in this endeavour, such as books with useful phrases, do not state that the examples they provide are corpus-based, i.e. drawn from actual language use rather than invented…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Classroom Communication, Interaction
Redard, Francoise – Francais dans le Monde, 1986
Literature on the following topics is reviewed: (1) discourse analysis as it relates to communicative competence; (2) classroom communication, and (3) the needs of students wishing to gain fluency in a foreign language. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, French
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