Sahlstrom2002

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Sahlstrom2002
BibType ARTICLE
Key Sahlstrom2002
Author(s) Fritjof Sahlström
Title The interactional organization of hand raising in classroom interaction
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Tag(s) ethnomethodology, education, hand-raising, classroom interaction, Gesture
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Year 2002
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Journal Journal of Classroom Interaction
Volume 37
Number 2
Pages 47–57
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School
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Abstract

The article studies the organization and interactional implications of hand-raising in plenary classroom interaction. The materials analyzed are video and audio recordings from eigth-grade classrooms in the Swedish comprehensive school. Conversation analysis is relied upon as the primary theoretical and methodological resource. The results show that raising one's hand involves several actions related to participation in interaction, including gaze direction and body orientation. Hand-raises are shown to occur in teacher turns at or in projection to turn-transition-relevance places. The relationship of raised hands and sequential characteristics of teacher turns is shown as systematically organized. The primary interactional function of this relationship is shown to be the monitoring of class participation in teaching.

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