ReddingtonYuTadic2019
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | ReddingtonYuTadic2019 |
| Author(s) | Elizabeth Reddington, Di Yu, Nadja Tadic |
| Title | A tale of two tasks: Facilitating storytelling in the adult ESL classroom |
| Editor(s) | Joan Kelly Hall, Stephen Daniel Looney |
| Tag(s) | EMCA |
| Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
| Year | 2019 |
| Language | English |
| City | Bristol, UK |
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| Pages | 81–99 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.21832/9781788925501-008 |
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| Book title | The Embodied Work of Teaching |
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Abstract
The current study offers an account of how participants in one adult English as a Second Language class constitute a storytelling task, with a focus on the role(s) adopted by the teacher. Using the framework of conversation analysis, we show how the teacher utilizes a variety of linguistic and embodied resources to engage with learners, and we examine how shifts in the nature of her participation shape opportunities for student participation. Juxtaposing two cases, we find that while the teacher generally takes on a supporting role, linguistically and sequentially, when the opportunity arises, she becomes a co-teller who competes for the floor, prompting the student teller to do the same. We present these two different realizations of the “same” storytelling task as a starting point for considering options available to the language teacher in facilitating communicative activities and the interactional consequences of exercising those options.
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