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Leyland, Christopher; Greer, Tim; Rettig-Miki, Ellen – Classroom Discourse, 2016
This study employs longitudinal Conversation Analysis (CA) to examine one TA's follow-up contributions in a series of EFL group discussion tests. By tracking the TA's interactional practices across 18 groups, we observe how she adapts her turn design by increasingly aligning towards that of the novice English speakers. The TA initially attempts to…
Descriptors: Speech Tests, Evaluators, Novices, English (Second Language)
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Fagan, Drew S. – Classroom Discourse, 2012
The current paper examines the discursive practices of one novice English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher "dealing with" learners' unexpected contributions in whole group classroom interactions during teacher- and learner-initiated sequences-of-talk. The study draws from two fields of research: classroom discourse studies…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Novices, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning