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Waring2015
BibType ARTICLE
Key Waring2015
Author(s) Hansun Zhang Waring
Title Promoting self-discovery in the language classroom
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Tag(s) EMCA, Teachers, Classroom, Repair, Second language acquisition, Institutional, Applied
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Year 2015
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Journal International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
Volume 53
Number 1
Pages 61-85
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DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/iral-2015-0003
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Abstract

Promoting self-discovery appears to be a general relevancy oriented to by participants not only in ordinary conversation (Schegloff et al., 1977) but also in various sorts of institutional encounters (e.g., Edwards & Stokoe, 2007). The push for self-repair, for example, is considered an important learning activity which may be inhibited or retarded by other-repair (van Lier, 1988; Ohta, 2000). The aim of this paper is to investigate the complexities of the practices utilized to accomplish promoting self-discovery in the language classroom. Based on a conversation analytic account of 30 hours of audio and video-recorded adult ESL (English as a Second Language) lessons, I show two ways in which promoting self-discovery may become problematic in its implementation. I argue that language instructors need to be sensitized to the delicate balance between promoting self-discovery and providing interactionally contingent help.

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