Mortensen2009

From emcawiki
Jump to: navigation, search
Mortensen2009
BibType ARTICLE
Key Mortensen2009
Author(s) Kristian Mortensen
Title Establishing recipiency in pre-beginning position in the second language classroom
Editor(s)
Tag(s) EMCA, Second language acquisition, Classroom interactions, Recipiency, Turn taking
Publisher
Year 2009
Language
City
Month
Journal Discourse Processes
Volume 46
Number 5
Pages 491–515
URL Link
DOI 10.1080/01638530902959463
ISBN
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title
Chapter

Download BibTex

Abstract

This article describes how students in the second language classroom claim incipient speakership and establish recipiency with a co-participant before the turn is properly initiated. The resources used by the incipient speaker include in-breaths and body movements. The article shows that when the teacher's turn is designed as not to pre-establish the participation roles “speaker” and “recipient” of the response turn, the next speaker orients to establishing visible recipiency as a relevant task during, or prior to, the turn beginning. In this way, the teacher's instruction, and the way it is designed and enacted, provides the students with specific interactional jobs that are not only relevant, but also crucial for the production of the student's turn.

Notes