<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> 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.</p></abstract>

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.

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

Masaryk University Faculty of Education Institute for Research in School Education Poříčí 31, 603 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Journal of Language and Cultural Education

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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...

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

Published Online: Oct 15, 2015

Page range: 52 - 60

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2015-0019

Keywords
classroom interaction, dialogism, conversation analysis, English as a foreign language, learning, teaching

© 2015

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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

Published Online: Oct 15, 2015

Page range: 52 - 60

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2015-0019

Keywordsclassroom interaction, dialogism, conversation analysis, English as a foreign language, learning, teaching

© 2015

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
classroom interaction, dialogism, conversation analysis, English as a foreign language, learning, teaching