Macbeth2004

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Macbeth2004
BibType ARTICLE
Key Macbeth2004
Author(s) Douglas Macbeth
Title The relevance of repair for classroom correction
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Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Repair, Classroom interactions, Correction, Ethnomethodology
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Year 2004
Language English
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Journal Language in Society
Volume 33
Number 5
Pages 703–736
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DOI 10.1017/S0047404504045038
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Abstract

This article attempts to align a familiar task of classroom teaching, eliciting from students correct answers about their lessons, with a major organizational domain in studies of natural conversation, that of conversational repair. Numerous studies have analyzed correction sequences in classroom discourse, and our discussion pays special attention to McHoul's (1990) treatment of “repair in classroom talk.” McHoul directly measures the findings on repair in studies of natural conversation to the regularities of correction sequences in classroom lessons. It is argued, contra McHoul, that repair is a different, and prior, order of discursive work, and one that premises the very possibility of classroom correction. Further, the difference may have wider relevance for understanding repair and correction as “co-operating” organizations of talk-in-interaction more generally.

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