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A Multi-Faceted View of Engagement with Language: A Study with Young EFL Learners Working on a Collaborative Writing Task
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Agurtzane Azkarai; Asier Calzada – Classroom Discourse, 2024
Collaborative writing (CW) tasks require heightened Engagement with Language (EWL), as their learning potential has been shown to be mediated by the number of language-related episodes (LREs) or learners' patterns of interaction. Recent research on CW with young populations has investigated different dimensions of EWL, but a holistic view of the…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Proffering Absurd Candidate Formulations in the Pursuit of Progressivity
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Amar, Cheikhna; Nanbu, Zachary; Greer, Tim – Classroom Discourse, 2022
Based on interaction recorded in EFL classrooms, this study uses Conversation Analysis to document the post-first deployment of an absurd candidate formulation (ACF) to pursue recipient response at points of interactional delay. ACFs are a form of correction-invitation device in which the question initiator proffers a candidate response that is…
Descriptors: Humor, Political Attitudes, Discourse Analysis, Error Correction
An Analysis of Repair Practices in L2 Spanish Listening Comprehension Materials with Implications for Teaching Interactional Competence
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Batlle, Jaume; Suárez, Maria del Mar – Classroom Discourse, 2021
Listening materials are commonly developed so students show their understanding of a specific oral discourse. Oral interactions provided in textbooks are resources in which different interactional practices are involved, repair practices being one of these. This article seeks to explore, first, the types of repair practices found in Spanish as a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Listening Comprehension
Wearing Two Hats: Managing Affiliation and Instruction When Responding to Learner-Initiated Experiences in the Adult ESL Classroom
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Hoi Yee Lo, Carol – Classroom Discourse, 2020
Drawing on videotaped recordings from an Adult ESL class, this conversation-analytic paper examines how an experienced teacher responds to learner-initiated tellings of personal experiences while addressing the institutional goals of the language classroom. Specifically, I show three practices which enable the teacher to address institutional…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Video Technology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Classroom Socialisation: Repair and Correction in Japanese as a Heritage Language
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Burdelski, Matthew – Classroom Discourse, 2021
This paper explores the classroom socialisation of a mundane institutional language policy regarding the use of the target language: Japanese. Based on audiovisual recordings in a Japanese as a heritage language (JHL) classroom, it analyses episodes when teachers initiated repair on children's novel English loanwords (i.e. English-based words…
Descriptors: Socialization, Classroom Communication, Error Correction, Heritage Education
'Well Let Me Put It Uhm the Other Way around Maybe': Managing Students' Trouble Displays in the CLIL Classroom
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Aldrup, Marit – Classroom Discourse, 2019
This study is concerned with repair practices that a teacher and students employ to restore intersubjectivity when faced with interactional problems in a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) classroom. Adopting a conversation analytic (CA) approach, it examines the interactional treatment of students' verbal and embodied trouble…
Descriptors: Course Content, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction