فهرس المقالات Classroom Discourse

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  1 - Reflections on Conversation Analytic Research in ELT
  Hamid Allami Fatemeh Mozaffari Hossein Ali Manzouri
  10.30486/relp.2022.1961317.1385
  Studying L2 classroom interaction can potentially help teachers and researchers to analyze classroom discourse in order to gain insights into class-based learning and promote teachers' awareness of their teaching. To measure, analyze and describe the interaction and the أکثر

  Studying L2 classroom interaction can potentially help teachers and researchers to analyze classroom discourse in order to gain insights into class-based learning and promote teachers' awareness of their teaching. To measure, analyze and describe the interaction and the behavior of participants in classrooms several approaches can be used. One of the most powerful methodologies in Applied Linguistic research and L2 classroom interactions has recently been conversation analysis. This short pape r reports on several conversation analytic studies with a focus on English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom discourse and discusses the values of conversation analysis as a reflexive methodology for research on second or foreign language classroom discourse. The implications outlined are for language teaching and learning, classroom interaction, professional development of English language teachers, teacher education, and everyday talk. تفاصيل المقالة
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  2 - Assessing English Language Teachers’ Initiation of Discourse in the Light of Teaching Experience and Learners’ Proficiency Level
  مینا اسماعیلی Zohreh Seifoori Touran Ahour
  10.30495/ttlt.2023.705469
  The pattern dominating Classroom discourse is Initiation-Response-Feedback (IRF) and the initiation move normally takes the form of questions asked by teachers. The questions might be either referential or inferential and classroom research has accentuated the role thes أکثر

  The pattern dominating Classroom discourse is Initiation-Response-Feedback (IRF) and the initiation move normally takes the form of questions asked by teachers. The questions might be either referential or inferential and classroom research has accentuated the role these questions can play in eliciting learner output with the latter more likely conducive to meaning-focused output. However, what still awaits scrutiny is the extent to which teachers tend to activate learners’ semantic and syntactic processing by using appropriate questions and how their experience might mediate their choices at varying proficiency levels. Hence, the present descriptive study set out to compare the frequency of inferential and referential questions employed by novice and experienced teachers to initiate interaction at lower-intermediate (LI) and upper-intermediate (UI) levels. For the purpose of the study, a purposive sample of 20 English classrooms were selected at nine branches of an English institute in Tabriz, Iran. The classrooms were taught by five novice and five experienced teachers. Using a semi-structured researcher-made and piloted observation form, the classroom procedures were observed, recorded, and transcribed. The transcribed data were further analyzed employing the standardized coding system proposed by Long and Sato (1983) as a seven-category taxonomy of functions of teacher questions. The results revealed that experienced teachers used significantly more referential questions at both LI and UI levels. In contrast, novice teachers were found to use significantly more inferential questions at both LI and upper intermediate levels. Pedagogical implications of the findings will be discussed. تفاصيل المقالة
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  3 - Investigating Teacher-Learner Classroom Interaction: Learner-Contingent Feedback across Proficiency Levels and Teacher Experience
  Mina Esmaeili Bavili Zohreh Seifoori Touran Ahour
  10.30495/ttlt.2021.683892
  Initiation, Response, and Feedback (IRF) is the dominant classroom interactional pattern that, if employed adequately, can facilitate learners’ transition from other-regulation to self-regulation by providing scaffolded learner-contingent feedback. However, the ex أکثر

  Initiation, Response, and Feedback (IRF) is the dominant classroom interactional pattern that, if employed adequately, can facilitate learners’ transition from other-regulation to self-regulation by providing scaffolded learner-contingent feedback. However, the extent to which the teaching experience and learners’ proficiency level may impact teachers’ employment of this interactional resource still awaits scrutiny. Hence, the present ethnographic classroom research explored possible variations in novice and experienced teachers’ use of IRF patterns and graduated/contingent feedback (GCF) when teaching upper and lower intermediate classes. To serve the purpose, 20 English classrooms at nine branches of a well-known language school in Tabriz during the same semester were selected that were being taught by five novice and five experienced teachers teaching based on purposive sampling. The classroom procedures were observed, recorded, and transcribed based on a validated researcher-designed observation form. The frequency of the IRF and GCF in the transcribed data were estimated and analyzed through a Chi-square test to find out variations across the proficiency level and teaching experience. The results revealed that teaching experience could predict the frequency of the IRF pattern use but not the GCF in the final turn; GCF was significantly disproportionate to the general use of IRF patterns and more frequent at a lower intermediate level. تفاصيل المقالة