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“Huh?” “Good!”: teaching conversational repair in introductory L2 classrooms

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Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · 4d

New #openaccess article! “Huh?” “Good!”: teaching conversational repair in introductory #L2 classrooms (by Michiko Kaneyasu, University of California) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Over the past decade, a growing effort has been made toward the practical application of findings and insights from Conversation Analysis (CA) in second language (L2) teaching, with the goal of bet...

Pre-service teachers´ interaction with students manifested in speech turns– a case study of interaction and acoustic analyses

Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · 4d

New #openaccess article out! Pre-service #teachers´ interaction with students manifested in speech turns– a case study of #interaction and #acoustic analyses (by Kati Järvinen, Anna-Leena Kähkönen, Pasi Nieminen & Terhi Mäntylä - University of Jyväskylä) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In the classroom, teacher-student interaction has a vital role in learning. Interaction is constructed by interpersonal communication consisting of verbal and non-verbal communication. When analysi...

Implications of materials use in a shop encounter roleplay in Finnish as an L2 classroom interaction – a comparison of two types of task materials

Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · 4d

New #openaccess article out in Classroom Discourse! Implications of #materials use in a shop encounter #roleplay in #Finnish as an #L2 #classroom #interaction – a comparison of two types of task materials (by Katriina Rantala, University of Oulu, Finland) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This study uses multimodal conversation analysis to examine the influence of learning materials on a second language classroom task interaction. The data comes from tasks where beginner-level adult...

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Olcay Sert (織在猿人) @sertolcay.bsky.social · Aug 15

Our edited volume (w/ Hansun Waring, Teachers College, Columbia University) "Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education: Intervention Studies" is now out! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #CA #EMCA #teachereducation #teaching #interaction #classroom

This volume brings together studies that document practice-based changes in which conversation analysis plays a role.

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Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · Jul 11

New article out in Classroom Discourse!: "Forms of becoming: elementary students’ self-positioning in writing" (by Maryam Khosronejad, Mary Ryan & Lauren Alexandra Weber). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Forms of becoming: elementary students’ self-positioning in writing

This paper investigates 15 elementary aged children’s self-positioning in writing. To this purpose, we examine how children perceive and represent themselves through their engagement with writing r...

Teachers’ responses in student-initiated question sequences during between-desk interactions in EFL project work

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MIND (Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics) Research Group @mindresearchgroup.bsky.social · Jul 11

A new #openaccess article, published in Linguistics and Education, by our researchers @marwaamri.bsky.social & @sertolcay.bsky.social: "Teachers’ responses in student-initiated question sequences during between-desk interactions in #EFL project work" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #CA

A defining feature of project-based English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classrooms is teachers’ routine circulation between desks to answer students’ …

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Ways to analyse classroom interaction: commentary to the special issue

Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · Jul 10

The special issue is concluded by Jan Berenst and Marjolein Deunk's with their insightful commentary: doi.org/10.1080/1946... /8.

Published in Classroom Discourse (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2025)

Using T-pattern analysis to map classroom interactions: a case study of student and teacher learning-orientation

Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · Jul 10

In the sixth study published in the special issue, Naomi de Ruiter & Mayra Mascareño Lara focus on the use of T-pattern analysis to map classroom interactions: doi.org/10.1080/1946... /7 👇

The identification of the recurrent patterns of interaction is a window to understanding the patterning of social behaviour, and as such, it is the target of many quantitative and qualitative analy...

Using state space grids for analysing teacher–student interaction in an intervention: The complex dynamics of teaching for musical creativity

Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · Jul 10

In the fifth article, Linda Hendriks, Elisa Kupers, Henderien Steenbeek, Evert Bisschop Boele & Paul van Geert walk the readers through the use of state space grids for analysing teacher–student interaction: doi.org/10.1080/1946... /6 👇

This paper highlights the use of State Space Grids (SSGs) for studying real-time classroom discourse in an intervention targeting professional development. State Space Grid analysis is both a power...

The application of orbital decomposition analysis to study the dynamic quality of teacher–teacher interactions

Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · Jul 10

The fourth article in the issue, co-authored by Heleen (Helena) Pennings, Marloes Hendrickx, Marieke Thurlings & Perry den Brok, illustrates the application of orbital decomposition analysis to study the dynamic quality of teacher–teacher interactions: doi.org/10.1080/1946... /5 👇

Moment-to-moment educational interactions affect longer-term outcomes of those involved in those interactions. In the present study, we illustrate with two cases of teacher–teacher interactions how...

Analysing educational dialogue around shared artefacts in technology-mediated contexts: a new coding framework

Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · Jul 10

In the third article, Sara Hennessy presents Tech-SEDA, "a systematic, research-informed and practical tool for analysing verbal and nonverbal dialogic communication at the micro- or meso- level across diverse educational settings": doi.org/10.1080/1946... /4 👇

Multimodal interactions that incorporate technology use can support rich new forms of educational dialogue that highlight differences between participants’ perspectives and make reasoning processes...

Developing student-teachers’ interactional competence through video-enhanced reflection: a discursive timeline analysis of negative evaluation in classroom interaction

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Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · Jul 10

The second article in the issue co-authored by OlcaySert Annaliina Gynne & Maria Larsson unpacks how Discursive Timeline Analysis can be deployed to document teacher-learning over-time, using data from classrooms, post observation conferences and written reflections doi.org/10.1080/1946... /3 👇

This article presents a case study of a student-teacher’s change in classroom interactional practices as she engages in video-enhanced reflections and collaborative feedback encounters during her p...

Applying conversation analysis to classroom interactions: students’ ‘oh’-prefaced utterances and the interactional management of explanations

Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · Jul 10

In the first article, Myrte Gosen, Annerose Willemsen & Frans Hiddink showcase the use of Conversation Analysis to analyse classroom interaction, with a focus on students’ ‘oh’-prefaced utterances and the interactional management of explanations doi.org/10.1080/1946... /2 👇

This study serves as an example of Conversation Analytic (CA) research with a focus on the interactional management of learning in classroom interactions, while simultaneously illustrating the seve...

Exploring the methodological breadth of research on educational interactions: introduction to the special issue

Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · Jul 10

The issue opens with an introduction by the special issue editors Tom Koole, Elisa Kupers & Mayra Mascareño Lara: Exploring the methodological breadth of research on educational interactions doi.org/10.1080/1946... /1 👇

The study of how discourse, learning and classroom activity are shaped in interaction, can be approached through various theoretical and methodological lenses. Different families of approaches have...

Analyzing educational interactions: exploring the methodological breadth. Volume 16, Issue 2 of Classroom Discourse

Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · Jul 10

A new SI of Classroom Discourse is now out!:"Analyzing educational interactions: exploring the methodological breadth" www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcdi20/1.... The issue features qualitative &quantitative studies that showcase methodologies & the use of empirical data to analyse classroom discourse /0👇

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Partnering with AI in teacher education? Using an automatic question detection tool to reflect on classroom interaction

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Olcay Sert (織在猿人) @sertolcay.bsky.social · May 19

It has been eye opening for me to listen to the perspectives of student-teachers on their use of an AI tool for #reflective #practice: Partnering with #AI in #teacher #education? Using an automatic question detection tool to reflect on #classroom #interaction: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In this paper, I investigate a group of student-teachers’ insights into an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered automatic question-detection tool designed for reflective practice: Question Bot (QBo...

Repairing problems of acceptability in pre-task interaction

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Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · May 19

New article out! Repairing problems of acceptability in pre-task interaction (by David Shimamoto, Kobe University, Japan) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In task-based language teaching methodology, one way to familiarise learners with the upcoming task is through question-and-answer sequences that target task-relevant topics. In such instances, lea...

“Sit like princess/prince”: the making of neoliberal subjects in communication classrooms in the Philippines

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Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · Apr 3

New article out! “Sit like princess/prince”: the making of neoliberal subjects in communication classrooms in the Philippines, by Carlo G. Soberano www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This paper contributes to the scholarship on the neoliberalisation of higher education by examining how classroom discourse shapes neoliberal subjectivities. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of govern...

Laughter, failure talk, and the sensitive nature of negative feedback

Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · Mar 26

New #openaccess article out! Laughter, failure talk, and the sensitive nature of negative feedback, by Gustav Lymer, Oskar Lindwall & Charlott Sellberg. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This study investigates the role of laughter in video-recorded interactions between instructors and students during post-simulation debriefing in maritime education, focusing on how the sensitive n...

Oral corrective feedback and learner uptake: an analysis of Chinese high-school teachers’ practices in a national teaching competition

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Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · Mar 25

New article out! "Oral corrective feedback and learner uptake: an analysis of Chinese high-school teachers’ practices in a national teaching competition", by Chi Zhang, Neil E.J.A. Bowen & Nathan Thomas doi.org/10.1080/1946...

Given the important role of oral corrective feedback (OCF) in language-learning classrooms, understanding its application in specific contexts is crucial for improving pedagogical practices. The no...

Using T-pattern analysis to map classroom interactions: a case study of student and teacher learning-orientation

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Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · Mar 6

Using T-pattern analysis to map classroom interactions: a case study of student and teacher learning-orientation, by Naomi de Ruiter & Mayra Mascareño Lara doi.org/10.1080/1946... (Part of the forthcoming special issue "Analyzing educational interactions - exploring the methodological breadth")

The identification of the recurrent patterns of interaction is a window to understanding the patterning of social behaviour, and as such, it is the target of many quantitative and qualitative analy...

Building affiliation in the L2 classroom: the role of side sequences

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Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · Mar 5

New #openaccess article out! Building affiliation in the L2 classroom: the role of side sequences, by Tianfang Wang, Joan Kelly Hall, Yingliang He, Yuanheng (Arthur) Wang, Shuyuan Liu & Su Yin Khor doi.org/10.1080/1946...

Previous conversation analytic (CA) studies have explored how affiliation is created in L2 classrooms. This study adds to the research by documenting the opportunities for creating affiliative mome...

Accomplishing lesson ending: bringing lesson to an end

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Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · Feb 21

Accomplishing lesson ending: bringing lesson to an end, by Mehmet Ali İçbay @maicbay.bsky.social (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Türkiye) doi.org/10.1080/1946... /5.

This ethnomethodological study examines the dynamics of lesson closure in diverse classroom settings, drawing on the sequential analysis of five video-recorded lessons in history, literature, chemi...

Making sense of making: bringing a design and making project to school

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Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · Feb 21

Making sense of making: bringing a design and making project to school, by Tiina Keisanen, Leena Kuure, Netta Iivari, Marianne Kinnula (University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland) doi.org/10.1080/1946... /4 👇

This study focuses on a design and making project carried out in a Finnish school and situated within the schedules of a multidisciplinary learning module and English as a foreign language. A group...