JenksSeedhouse2015

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JenksSeedhouse2015
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key JenksSeedhouse2015
Author(s) Christopher J. Jenks, Paul Seedhouse
Title Applying global perspectives on ELT classroom interaction to current issues in language teaching
Editor(s) Christopher J. Jenks, Paul Seedhouse
Tag(s) EMCA, Classroom, EFL
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Year 2015
Language English
City London
Month
Journal
Volume
Number
Pages 219–226
URL Link
DOI 10.1057/9781137340733_13
ISBN
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title International Perspectives on ELT Classroom Interaction
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Abstract

The classroom is a complex social setting that hosts a multitude of teaching and learning phenomena (e.g. Chaudron 1988; Leander 2002). Teachers spend many hours before lessons identifying learning objectives and designing classroom activities. These objectives and activities are realised and carried out in, and through, talk and interaction (e.g. Hall et al. 2011). That is to say, teachers and students co-construct an understanding of teaching and learning in situ, and these instances of co-construction may or may not be aligned with intended pedagogical objectives (Seedhouse 2001, 2004, 2010; van Lier 1988). Furthermore, educational roles and relationships shape how interaction unfolds, and institutional constraints, such as available resources and teacher–student ratios, challenge the type of talk that is possible (see Hall and Walsh 2002).

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