‘There are two gaps, so’: teaching materials as resources for
correction in pre-service teachers’ EFL classes

J 2021

‘There are two gaps, so’: teaching materials as resources for correction in pre-service teachers’ EFL classes

TŮMA, František and Kateřina LOJDOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

‘There are two gaps, so’: teaching materials as resources for correction in pre-service teachers’ EFL classes

Authors

TŮMA, František (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Kateřina LOJDOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Classroom Discourse, 2021, 1946-3014

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

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

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

DOI článku

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14410/21:00119190

Organization unit

Faculty of Education

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19463014.2020.1856697

UT WoS

000691073400002

Keywords in English

Correction; repair; classroom interaction; teaching materials; pre-service teachers

Abstract

V originále

This study investigates how pre-service teachers of English as a foreign language do correction during their initial teaching practice at lower-secondary schools. The study employs multimodal conversation analysis on a dataset of 16 lessons taught by three pre-service teachers in Czechia. The analysis focuses specifically on how the teachers orient to the task format when doing correction in answer-check sequences. It demonstrates how the teachers employ talk, gesture and gaze to make the task format (such as fill-in-the-blanks, matching) relevant and thereby use the materials as points of reference as well as resources for structuring classroom discourse. This use of materials contributes to the completion of the correction sequences. It is concluded that (over-)reliance on teaching materials and limited flexibility, which can be observed in not accepting alternative answers produced by learners, seem to be manifestations of some of the traits of pre-service teachers’ performance.

Links

GA19-06763S, research and development project

Name: Etnografie diverzity v pregraduální přípravě učitelů

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Ethnography of Diversity in Pre-Service Teacher Education

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TŮMA, František and Kateřina LOJDOVÁ. ‘There are two gaps, so’: teaching materials as resources for correction in pre-service teachers’ EFL classes. Classroom Discourse. 2021, vol. 12, 1-2, p. 15-34. ISSN 1946-3014. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19463014.2020.1856697.

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TŮMA, František and Kateřina LOJDOVÁ. ‘There are two gaps, so’: teaching materials as resources for correction in pre-service teachers’ EFL classes. \textit{Classroom Discourse}. 2021, vol.~12, 1-2, p.~15-34. ISSN~1946-3014. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19463014.2020.1856697.

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