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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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Matsumoto, Yumi; Lee, Jay Jo; Kim, Eunhee – Classroom Discourse, 2022
Using multimodal conversation analysis, this study closely examines moments when an instructor's embodied explanations elicit laughter from his students -- which we refer to as laughing moments -- in an English as a second language classroom. Such laughing moments can exhibit students' attention to the teacher's explanation and also illuminate…
Descriptors: Humor, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Çopur, Nimet; Atar, Cihat; Walsh, Steve – Classroom Discourse, 2021
Research on humour in second language classrooms has widely focused on the roles, social functions and markers of humour in interaction; however, little attention has been paid to the sequential mechanisms of humour and the relationship between repair and humour. Therefore, drawing on a conversation analytic approach, this study investigates…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Humor, Interaction, English (Second Language)
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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
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Looney, Stephen Daniel; He, Yingliang – Classroom Discourse, 2021
This paper investigates the use of laughter and smiling to manage (dis)affiliation during two types of disturbances in the interactional unfolding of classrooms: delayed and disaligning responses. The analysis reveals that the sequential position and embodied turn design are integral to understanding the (dis)affiliative work laughter and smiling…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Humor, Nonverbal Communication
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Hazel, Spencer; Mortensen, Kristian – Classroom Discourse, 2017
This article explores the moral accountability of second language classroom participation, evidenced in sequential environments where participants display an orientation to some or other transgression in the engagement framework. Classroom participation is a sensitive issue which touches on what Garfinkel (1964, 225) has referred to as the…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Classroom Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Park, Mi Yung – Classroom Discourse, 2016
Using a conversation-analytic approach along with the notions of frame and footing (Goffman 1981), this study examines what strategies teachers use to build rapport with their students in Korean as a foreign language classrooms. It also discusses what kinds of interactional resources they employ in tandem with these strategies. Analysis of…
Descriptors: Korean, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Empathy