Netz2016

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Netz2016
BibType ARTICLE
Key Netz2016
Author(s) Hadar Netz
Title Designedly Incomplete Utterances and student participation
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Tag(s) EMCA, Education, Designedly incomplete utterances, Participation, Students, Classroom
Publisher
Year 2016
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City
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Journal Linguistics and Education
Volume 33
Number
Pages 56-73
URL Link
DOI 10.1016/j.linged.2016.01.001
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Howpublished
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Abstract

This paper analyzes Designedly Incomplete Utterances (DIUs), which are an instructional practice commonly used by teachers when eliciting information from students. When producing a DIU, the teacher halts his/her turn before it has reached its grammatical completion, and by doing so invites the students to complete the turn. The study is based on a qualitative analysis of a fully transcribed corpus of whole-class instruction sequences, in grades 5–8, in Virginia, USA. The main focus is the relation between DIUs and student participation. It is demonstrated that frequent use of DIUs might indeed increase student participation, but this participation seems to be by coercion, rather than by students’ substantive engagement in the learning process.

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