Selecting next speaker in the second language classroom: How to find a willing next speaker in planned activities. Issue 1 (13th September 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mortensen, Kristian
• Is Part Of: Journal of applied linguistics and professional practice. Volume 5:Issue 1(2008)
• Page Start: 55
• Page End: 79
• Publication Date: 2015-09-13
• Subjects: conversation analysis -- classroom interaction -- planning-in-interaction -- turn-taking organization -- second language pedagogy; Applied linguistics -- Periodicals; 418.005
• DOI: 10.1558/japl.v5i1.55
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2040-3658

Abstract

Abstract : This article analyses how second language teachers and students interactionally negotiate turn-allocation in the classroom. Relying on Conversation Analysis (CA), I analyse how teachers find and select a next speaker (i.e. a student) in what Gourlay (2005) describes as checking episodes, i.e., 'episodes structured around the outcomes of previously enacted activities, in which teacher and students go through the outcomes of activities in whole-class mode' (Gourlay 2005: 407). The article describes how this is done on the basis of detailed interactional work between teacher and students. The article thus describes a specific social practice in the second language classroom and the intrinsic relation between the classroom organization and the emerging social practices that are made relevant through the unfolding interaction.