“What is the date today?”: A dialogist perspective on expert EFL teachers’ classroom interaction

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Authors

TŮMA František

Year of publication 2015
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Journal of Language and Cultural Education
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Education

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2015-0019
Field Pedagogy and education
Keywords classroom interaction; dialogism; conversation analysis; English as a foreign language; learning; teaching
Description This article presents a micro-analysis of an EFL classroom episode in which the teacher and the pupils worked on the concepts “date” and “day” (and relatedly saying the date in English), which the learners had not fully internalized yet. Conversation analysis (CA) and concepts from sociocultural theory (SCT) are used in the analysis to reveal how the mutual understanding proceeded. It is argued that the presented dialogist perspective can cast light on the intricacies of the teaching and learning processes.
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