Classroom discourse in EFL teaching.

Classroom discourse in EFL teaching.

Hauptbeschreibung This study analyses examples of classroom discourse, one of the most important influences on students' experience in schools, in EFL classes. The central idea of the author's enquiry is to compare classroom discourse in two secondary schools in two European countries, nam...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Strobelberger, Katrin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hamburg : Diplomica Verlag, 2012.
Subjects:
English language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers.
Communication in education.
Communication in education
English language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers
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Table of Contents:
  • Classroom discourse in EFL teaching: A cross-cultural perspective; Table of content; I. Introduction; II. Background and context; III. Literature review; III. 1. The organisation of conversation; III. 2. Classroom discourse; III. 2.1. Teacher talk and the IRE sequence; III. 2. 2. Classroom turn-taking; III. 2. 3. Interactional competence; III. 2. 4. From teacher-centred classrooms to other forms of teaching; III. 2. 5. New forms of pedagogy; III. 3. Classroom discourse in foreign language teaching; III. 3. 1. Second Language Acquisition; III. 3. 2. Communicative foreign language teaching.
  • III. 3.3. Communicative CompetenceIII. 4. Cultural differences in pedagogic traditions; IV. Methodology; IV. 1. Research question; IV. 2. Research strategy and design; IV. 2.1. Research strategy; IV. 2.2. Research design; IV. 2.3. Brief description of my two cases; IV. 3. Methods of data collection; IV. 3.1. The recordings; IV. 3.2. Ethics; IV. 4. Methods of data analysis; IV. 4.1. Transcribing the data; IV. 4.2. Analysing my data; IV. 4.3. Validity and reliability; V. Data presentation and analysis; V.1. Analysis of the Austrian transcripts.
  • V.1.1: Transcript AU1: focus on the interaction between teacher and teaching assistantV. 1.2.: Transcript AU2: student group with the teacher; V.1.3.: Transcript AU3: student group with the teaching assistant; V.2. Analysis of the Spanish transcripts; V.2.1.: Transcripts SP1a and SP1b: focus on the interaction between teacher and teaching assistant; V.2.2.: Transcripts SP2 and SP3: student groups (partly joined by the teacher or teaching assistant); V.3. Austrian transcripts compared; V.4. Spanish transcripts compared; V.5. Austrian and Spanish interaction compared; VI. Concluding remarks.
  • List of ReferencesAppendix I: Transcription conventions; Appendix II: Transcripts; Author's Profile.

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