Waring2016

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Waring2016
BibType ARTICLE
Key Waring2016
Author(s) Hansun Zhang Waring, Elizabeth Reddington, Nadja Tadic
Title Responding artfully to student-initiated departures in the adult ESL classroom
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Tag(s) EMCA, Education, L2, Classroom, Second language acquisition, Responding
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Year 2016
Language English
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Journal Linguistics and Education
Volume 33
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Pages 28–39
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DOI 10.1016/j.linged.2015.12.001
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Howpublished
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Abstract

Teachers constantly endeavor to strike a balance between the arguably competing tasks of maintaining control on the one hand and encouraging student participation on the other (Paoletti & Fele, 2004). How precisely such a balance is accomplished, however, remains largely a mystery. Based on videotaped data from the adult English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom, we describe two teacher practices for responding to student-initiated departures, where teacher control is maintained in the service of participation and learning. Findings of this conversation analytic study contribute to a growing understanding of how certain learner contributions in the language classroom may be tactfully and efficiently handled while offering increasing specificity for strengthening the foundations of language teacher education.

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