Reichert-Liebscher2018

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Reichert-Liebscher2018
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Reichert-Liebscher2018
Author(s) Tetyana Reichert, Grit Liebscher
Title Transitions with “Okay”: Managing language alternation in role-play preparations
Editor(s) Anna Filipi, Numa Markee
Tag(s) EMCA, Language alternation, Code-switching, Discourse markers, Okay, Role-play, Participation frameworks, German, German as a foreign language, Positioning, Canada
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Year 2018
Language English
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Pages 129–148
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DOI 10.1075/pbns.295.07rei
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Howpublished
Book title Conversation Analysis and Language Alternation: Capturing Transitions in the Classroom
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Abstract

This chapter discusses language alternation and the use of “okay” in peer interactions among German as a foreign language learners at a university in the English-speaking part of Canada. In these peer interactions, learners composed and rehearsed a role-play in German that was subsequently performed in class. A conversation analytic approach, together with positioning theory, is applied to examine learners’ use of these linguistic resources in the sequential organisation of the interaction and in the management of the learning task. We find that “okay” plays a specific role in marking transitions between languages as well as navigating the task and the students’ relationships.

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