scholarly journals ‘LEARNING MOMENTS’ AS INSPECTABLE PHENOMENA OF INQUIRY IN A SECOND LANGUAGE CLASSROOM

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-103
Author(s):  
Ricardo Moutinho ◽  
Andrew P. Carlin
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Coding Schemes ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Educational Environments ◽  
Language Classroom

Learning is an omnipresent feature of social life. However, in educational fields, learning is often studied through indirect instruments, such as surveys, interviews and coding schemes. In this paper, a praxiological approach to observe learning moments is proposed. This means that learning moments are not explored here through schematic reporting or statistical evaluations, but as accountable and inspectable phenomena as they became available in the corpus explored. Using a video-recorded fragment of interaction that occurred during a second language (L2) class in a primary school in Macau (China), the practical, collaborative instructed experiences of participants (teacher and students) in a lesson are analysed. It was observed that classroom participants attend to the categorial and sequential features of learning environments, which provide the contextual details that afford members’ realization of phenomena as learning moments. Stated differently, learning moments should not be confused with the successful accomplishment of a lesson plan just to satisfy programmatic (and disciplinary) requirements, but as something produced and accountable by participants as learning in and through their very practices of concerted interaction. As learning moments are ubiquitous characteristics of educational environments, the discussion of the results has pedagogical implications for teacher training, and for the assessment of teaching. Keywords: conversation analysis, ethnomethodology, learning moments, membership categorization, social competence, turn-allocated categories

Identities and linguistic varieties in Japanese

Pragmatics ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chie Fukuda
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Language Ideologies ◽  
First Language ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Analytic Tool ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Second Language Speakers

This study explores categorization processes of people (identities) and language (linguistic varieties) in interactions between L1 (first language) and L2 (second language) speakers of Japanese and the language ideologies behind them. Utilizing Conversation Analysis (CA) in combination with Membership Categorization Analysis (MCA), the present study focuses on how participants apply these categories to self and other where identities and language ideologies emerge in the sequences of ordinary conversations. The study also illuminates how the participants react to such ideologies, which is rarely documented in previous studies of L2 Japanese interactions. It is controversial to use CA and MCA as methodologies for inquiries into ideology due to different epistemological and theoretical frameworks. Yet, joining the emerging trend of CA studies that address ideological issues, this study will also demonstrate the compatibility between them. Methodological integration of CA and MCA has been proposed since the 1970s, but has started to be adopted only recently. Because few studies employ this combination in the area of language ideologies, it serves as a novel analytic tool in this body of research. Thus, this study makes a methodological contribution to the study of language ideologies, illustrating the production of language ideologies and reactions to it as participants’ accomplishments.

Genre Approach to Written Language: Classroom Report

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Bev Greer ◽  
Elizabeth Partridge
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Written Language ◽  
First Year ◽  
Aboriginal Students ◽  
Language Classroom

Carlton Primary School in Port Augusta has an enrolment of approximately 200 students in years R - 7. Over 50% of these students are Aboriginal and a large number of our Aboriginal students have been identified as having English as a second language. This year is the first year an E.S.L. teacher has been appointed to the school. I work in the school for one day a week as E.S.L teacher and the following report is from one of the targeted classes.

The use of English as a lingua franca in the Japanese second language classroom

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blake Turnbull
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
First Language ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Proficiency Level ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
English Speaking

AbstractDespite the growing interest surrounding the use and role of the first language in the second language classroom, the vast majority of research in the field has been conducted in classrooms where English is taught as a second language in English-speaking countries. Very little research has investigated the role of English as a lingua franca (ELF) in other language learning environments, such as those in which Japanese is learnt as a second language (JSL) in Japan. This paper investigates the purposes for which ELF is employed, and the perspectives of learners from multilingual and multicultural backgrounds on the use of ELF, in the JSL classroom. The findings show that English is employed to varying degrees in relation to proficiency level, and that learners themselves are generally welcoming of this use. The author suggests that learners seek security and comfort in what they already know, with ELF easing the gap between their L1 and their developing Japanese skills.

scholarly journals Connecting the Language Classroom and the Wild: Re-enactments of Language Use Experiences

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 594-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niina Lilja ◽  
Arja Piirainen-Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Service Encounters ◽  
Interactional Competence ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
In The Wild

Abstract Using multimodal conversation analysis, this article analyses language learning as an in situ process during a teacher-assigned, experientially based pedagogical activity. The activity involved a three-part pedagogical structure, where learners first prepared for and then participated in real-life service encounters, and later reflected on their experiences back in the classroom. The analysis details how the co-constructed telling sequences through which novice second language users re-enact their experiences create an occasion for language-focused activity. We argue that the actions through which the participants display and sustain an orientation to an interactional practice as an object of learning make visible a learning project. The findings illuminate the practices through which language-focused activity is initiated, sustained, and managed to enable in situ learning. They also show how re-enactments function in storytelling and display a novice learner’s interactional competence. Finally, the findings illustrate how experiences gained in everyday social activities can be ‘harvested and reflected upon’ (Wagner 2015: 77) in the classroom and contribute to recent initiatives to develop teaching practices that support learning in-the-wild.

Drama in the L2 Classroom: A Defense and Practicum

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-22
Author(s):  
Matthew Barbee
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Classroom Context ◽  
Educational Environments ◽  
Language Classroom

A case is made for the use and practice of drama and dramatic activities in order to engage students in the second language (L2) classroom. This article also attempts to clarify terms such as drama, theatre, and dramatic activities within a second language classroom context. In order to make the case for drama in the L2 classroom, well-established trends in contemporary pedagogy are presented. Coupled with Maley & Duff’s benefits of drama in the L2 classroom, the overall intent of this article is to empower L2 instructors and give them the theoretical and practical tools to brave potentially hostile educational environments that may not be open to dramatic activities in the classroom. In short, while teachers may instinctively know the value and benefits of drama to their language learners, they may at times need to convince administrators, fellow teachers, and even themselves of the benefits.

scholarly journals Peer Repair in a Second Language Class: A Conversation Analytic Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ziyang Gao ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Nonnative Speakers ◽  
Second Language Teaching ◽  
Class A ◽  
Language Class ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Nonnative Speakers Of English

Conversation analysis is a significant approach on research of the second language teaching and learning, among which repair has attracted more and more attention from scholars. This study investigates peer repair sequences between three nonnative speakers of English while they engaged in free talk in the second language classroom. 40 minutes of naturally occurring talk between nonnative speakers were collected and analyzed. The present study reports on the data shows two types of peer repair: first, self-initiated and other-corrected; second, other-initiated and other-corrected. The analysis of the peer repair sequences shows that the self-initiated and other-corrected repair sequences follow a pattern of asking for confirmation on the production of a language item and receiving a correction, while the other-initiated repair do not follow the rules of preference for self-correction described in conversation analysis.

MANAJEMEN PEMBELAJARAN TEMATIK INTEGRATIF SESUAI KURIKULUM 2013 PADA KELAS 4 SD KHADIJAH SURABAYA

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nafiah Nafiah
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Portfolio Assessment ◽  
Authentic Assessment ◽  
Project Assessment ◽  
Written Assessment ◽  
Data Collection Technique ◽  
Thematic Learning

The purpose of this study is to describe the implementation of management of integrative thematic learning based on curriculum 2013 at grade 4 khadijah primary school Surabaya. The focus of this study are 1. The lesson plan for integrative thematic class based on curriculum 2013 at grade 4 khadijah primary school . the research method of this study is descriptive kualitatif, the data collection technique are interview, observation and documentation. The result of this study are 1) the lesson plan of integrative thematic based on curriculum 2013 at grade 4 khadijah primary school Surabaya conducted by several steps are : a) set thema, b) doing analisys SKL, KI, and basic competence, c) arrage syllabus, d) arrage the lesson plan, 2) doing integrative thematic learning based on curriculum 2013 at grade 4 Khadijah primary school used scientific approch by observing, questioning, reasoning, trying, processing, displaying, verivicaying, and communicating, 3) the assessment of integrative thematic learning based on curriculum 2013 at grade 4 khadijah primary school used authentic assessment that include written assessment, project assessment and portfolio assessment.

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