Amar2022a

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Amar2022a
BibType ARTICLE
Key Amar2022a
Author(s) Cheikhna Amar
Title Ear cupping in EFL classroom interaction: an embodied means of pursuing students’ response
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Tag(s) EMCA, Classroom Interaction, pursuing response
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Year 2022
Language English
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Journal Text & Talk
Volume 42
Number 6
Pages 779-799
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DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2020-0127
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Abstract

This paper describes one of the embodied resources language teachers use to pursue a response from students: placing one hand behind the ear in an Ear Cupping (EC) gesture. The data analyzed are taken from over 20 h of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom interaction video-recorded at a Japanese university. The paper explores how teachers use EC to pursue a response in cases when a Second-Pair Part (SPP) contribution from the student(s) is sequentially and temporally delayed, missing or inapposite. The findings suggest that the use of the EC gesture to pursue a response demonstrates the teachers’ orientation toward a normative understanding that a question posed within the classroom should be answered, even when a specific respondent has not been nominated. The analysis therefore reveals that the gesture constitutes an embodied means of monitoring intersubjectivity and increasing engagement in large groups of language learners.

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