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Donaghue, Helen – Classroom Discourse, 2020
This article focuses on the use of display questions to construct positive identities in post observation feedback talk between in-service English language teachers and a supervisor. Using a linguistic ethnographic framework, microanalysis of dyadic feedback interaction is supplemented with ethnographic data gathered from participant perspective…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Waddington, Julie; Coto Bernal, Sandra; Siqués Jofré, Carina – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
Despite the growing tendency to introduce a foreign language in early years settings, little guidance is provided for practitioners in government steering documents or in the published literature. This article aims to bridge this gap by presenting a study which considers the importance of deploying the holistic approaches used in early years…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Correlation
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Suryati, Nunung – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2015
This article reports a study on teachers' use of interaction strategies in English Language Teaching (ELT) in lower secondary level of education. The study involved eighteen teachers from Lower Secondary Schools in Malang, East Java. Classroom observation was selected as a method in this study by utilizing Self Evaluation Teacher Talk (SETT) as…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Secondary Schools, Interaction, Classroom Techniques
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Rashid, Bushra Ni'ma – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Teaching English in an EFL context involves certain difficulties. The most important is how to prepare learners to use the English language so as to be able to participate in conversations inside and outside the class. Six classes at intermediate level (nine hours) were video and audio-taped in their entirety. The study explored recurring patterns…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language)
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Piker, Ruth A. – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2013
With dual language learners falling behind their same-age peers at the beginning of kindergarten, understanding how school experiences can enhance language learning is critical. This study demonstrates how play among preschool-aged children can foster English language learning. Using an ethnographic approach, one classroom composed of two teachers…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Education, Ethnography, Bilingual Students
Stone, Paul; Kidd, Andrew – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2011
This paper outlines some findings of a three-month investigation into the effects of students' interpersonal relationships on communication in two EFL classrooms in a Japanese university. Data was collected to identify and describe the various social subgroups that existed within the classes, and samples of classroom discourse were then analysed…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Interpersonal Relationship
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Guo, Yan – School Community Journal, 2010
Research in home-school communication has incorporated little, to date, about participation by English as a second language (ESL) parents. This article examines the communication processes between recent Chinese immigrant parents and Canadian teachers at secondary school Parents' Nights. Drawing from observations of three annual Parents' Nights,…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Parent Participation, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Cultural Differences
Fanselow, John F. – 1982
As a botanist uses specific, non-judgmental descriptions that are part of a conceptual framework to help see different varieties and characteristics of plants, so teachers can see more clearly what they do if they describe rather than judge what is done. If the purpose of using a framework or model to discuss lesson presentations and classroom…
Descriptors: Body Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques, Communication Research
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Moskowitz, Gertrude – TESOL Quarterly, 1972
This paper discusses the use of interaction analysis in this country and abroad. (VM)
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Interaction
Velazquez, Clara – 1977
This paper is based on the premise that an evaluation of teacher performance should consist of an evaluation of the teacher's presentation of subject matter and of the teacher's interaction with the students. In order to develop a balanced evaluation methodology, four English as a Second Language (ESL) classes in two schools on the island of…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Bilingual Teachers, Classroom Observation Techniques, Comparative Analysis
Shomoossi, Nematullah – Online Submission, 1997
Background: After the failure of several important methods comparison studies in the 1960s, the influence of interaction analysis stimulated interest in foreign language classroom processes. More careful observational studies gradually revealed which process variables were of interest. Also, there has been much research on teacher talk, with a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Classroom Research, Interaction Process Analysis, Ethnography
Mayo, Maria del Pilar Garcia; Pica, Teresa – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 2000
The question of whether the English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classroom is an environment that promotes input, feedback, and the production of output that is necessary for successful second language learning is addressed. Such questions have arisen within the context of a growing emphasis on communicative activities and student-to-student…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis
Fanselow, John F. – 1976
The patterns of moves in one type of teaching setting is very fixed: the teacher sets the stage for the learning, then sets tasks or asks questions for others to respond to and then comments on the performances. The problem with this pattern in language classrooms is that language is used differently in non-teaching settings. If students are…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages)