Icbay2022a

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Icbay2022a
BibType ARTICLE
Key Icbay2022a
Author(s) Mehmet Ali Icbay
Title Starting a lesson as an interactional accomplishment: Transition from recess
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Tag(s) EMCA
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Year 2022
Language English
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Journal Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice
Volume 16
Number 3
Pages 289–314
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DOI 10.1558/jalpp.22380
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Howpublished
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Abstract

This paper provides a detailed description of a lesson beginning in a tenth-grade (ages 15–16) history classroom in a high school in Ankara. The teacher and students in the history class accomplish starting the lesson in approximately two minutes. This is a period that involves a series of interactional practices, and the classroom members’ orientation to these practices makes available for the participants that the lesson beginning is a locally organized and sequentially produced accomplishment. The interactional practices are explored using ethnomethodological and conversation analytic principles as applied to five successive stages of the lesson beginning: (1) the recess period, (2) the teacher’s arrival, (3) the greeting exchange, (4) the teacher’s administrative tasks and (5) the tying signal. The analysis of the interactional practices in the lesson beginning shows that this is the period of establishing and re-establishing the initial two-party classroom order. The findings also demonstrate that the lesson beginning can be viewed as a form of meeting opening. Finally, the discussion on the characteristics of the lesson beginning in the history class suggests that the beginning functions as a transition between the recess and the instruction.

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