Investigating interaction among peers in English as a foreign
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Investigating interaction among peers in English as a foreign language using conversation analysis

TŮMA, František, Nicola Catherine FOŘTOVÁ and Linda NEPIVODOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Investigating interaction among peers in English as a foreign language using conversation analysis

Authors

TŮMA, František, Nicola Catherine FOŘTOVÁ and Linda NEPIVODOVÁ

Edition

5th International Conference of English and American Studies SILESIAN STUDIES IN ENGLISH — SILSE 2018, 6-7 September 2018, Opava, Czech Republic, 2018

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

50301 Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords (in Czech)

interakce mezi vrstevníky; interakce ve třídě; konverzační analýza

Keywords in English

peer interaction; classroom interaction; conversation analysis

Abstract

V originále

While verbal and non-verbal interaction among peers, for example during instructional activities, represents a highly collaborative and complex activity, relatively little is known about the ways in which Czech speakers interact in English as a foreign language. The aim of our presentation is therefore to introduce the background and methodology for such analyses. After giving an overview of relevant studies and introducing conversation analysis as a theoretical and methodological framework, we will illustrate some of the procedures, underlying assumptions and methodological challenges on a short data extract. Finally, we will briefly introduce our research project (Classroom interaction in frontal teaching and groupwork in EFL classes in upper-secondary schools, 18-02363S), within which we are going to collect and analyze peer interaction using conversation analysis. We argue that the outcomes of such conversation-analytic research can contribute to better understanding of how speakers of English as a foreign language achieve mutual understanding and coordinate the production of the target language. Such findings can inform educational research (i.e. foreign language speakers use and learn the foreign language in interaction) and, more generally, sociolinguistically-oriented research (i.e. speakers take turns, repair problems in interaction, code-switch etc.)

Links

GA18-02363S, research and development project

Name: Interakce ve frontální výuce a skupinové práci v hodinách angličtiny na střední škole

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

TŮMA, František, Nicola Catherine FOŘTOVÁ and Linda NEPIVODOVÁ. Investigating interaction among peers in English as a foreign language using conversation analysis. In 5th International Conference of English and American Studies SILESIAN STUDIES IN ENGLISH — SILSE 2018, 6-7 September 2018, Opava, Czech Republic. 2018.

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TŮMA, František, Nicola Catherine FOŘTOVÁ and Linda NEPIVODOVÁ. Investigating interaction among peers in English as a foreign language using conversation analysis. In \textit{5th International Conference of English and American Studies SILESIAN STUDIES IN ENGLISH — SILSE 2018, 6-7 September 2018, Opava, Czech Republic}. 2018.

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