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|Abstract=This   thesis  focuses  on   teacher  conduct  during   whole-class   discussions   around  curricular  texts in  primary  school  history  and geography  lessons. It  characterises  teachers’ different ways of taking on a more facilitating role and inviting students to take the floor for longer periods of time. By scrutinizing the teachers’ conduct during whole-class  discussions, identifying  the  student  contributions  that  precede  this  conduct and analysing  the interactional  consequences  of the  teachers’ actions,  we  show how teachers facilitate and influence the discussion among students with both verbal  and bodily  conduct.  These  insights  provide  valuable  knowledge  on  how  to hold a discussion in the classroom in which students talk and respond to each other, reason together and provide each other with alternative perspectives on a matter.
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|Abstract=This dissertation reports on detailed interaction research into the ways in which primary school teachers provide space for discussion during history lessons. Teachers participating in this project were asked to hold whole-class discussions on the basis of the textbook texts, instead of having their students complete written exercises individually. Productive discussions offer students the opportunity to collaboratively build understanding and enhance their individual cognitive processes. In order to realize productive discussions, teachers should facilitate interaction in which students produce longer stretches of talk and are provided the opportunity to talk and think together. Until now, recommendations to teachers holding whole-class discussions have been rather general. This thesis fulfils the need for detailed insight into teachers’ conduct during these discussions.
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The research shows that teachers, without having received intensive instruction, possess a large repertoire of conduct to facilitate and support discussions. For instance, the study of teachers’ ‘open and authentic questions’ revealed that one open question gives students much freedom and leads to actual discussion, while the other steers the students into a certain direction and generates only short answers. The other studies in this thesis unravel details of teacher conduct encouraging students to elaborate and to respond to each other. Apart from these nuances within specific types of conduct, this research has pointed out that teachers can facilitate and support whole-class discussions by means of less obvious conduct such as gaze, gestures and even the drinking of coffee at a moment at which the teacher would normally take a speaking turn. With the insights from this research teachers could be made more consciously competent.
 
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Willemsen2019b
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Author(s) Annerose Willemsen
Title The floor is yours: A conversation analytic study of teachers’ conduct facilitating whole-class discussions around texts
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Tag(s) EMCA, Whole-class discussions, Classroom Interaction, Facilitation Work, Teacher's role classroom management
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Year 2019
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DOI https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.99870715
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This dissertation reports on detailed interaction research into the ways in which primary school teachers provide space for discussion during history lessons. Teachers participating in this project were asked to hold whole-class discussions on the basis of the textbook texts, instead of having their students complete written exercises individually. Productive discussions offer students the opportunity to collaboratively build understanding and enhance their individual cognitive processes. In order to realize productive discussions, teachers should facilitate interaction in which students produce longer stretches of talk and are provided the opportunity to talk and think together. Until now, recommendations to teachers holding whole-class discussions have been rather general. This thesis fulfils the need for detailed insight into teachers’ conduct during these discussions. The research shows that teachers, without having received intensive instruction, possess a large repertoire of conduct to facilitate and support discussions. For instance, the study of teachers’ ‘open and authentic questions’ revealed that one open question gives students much freedom and leads to actual discussion, while the other steers the students into a certain direction and generates only short answers. The other studies in this thesis unravel details of teacher conduct encouraging students to elaborate and to respond to each other. Apart from these nuances within specific types of conduct, this research has pointed out that teachers can facilitate and support whole-class discussions by means of less obvious conduct such as gaze, gestures and even the drinking of coffee at a moment at which the teacher would normally take a speaking turn. With the insights from this research teachers could be made more consciously competent.

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