Dropping the devil’s advocate: One novice language tester’s shifting interactional practices across a series of speaking tests
Dropping the devil’s advocate: One novice language tester’s shifting interactional practices across a series of speaking tests
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放弃魔鬼的倡导者:一位新手语言测试员在一系列口语测试中改变互动实践
DOI:
10.1080/19463014.2015.1100129
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发表时间:
2016
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
Ellen Rettig
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作者:
C. Leyland;T. Greer;Ellen Rettig
This study employs longitudinal Conversation Analysis (CA) to examine one TA’s follow-up contributions in a series of EFL group discussion tests. By tracking the TA’s interactional practices across 18 groups, we observe how she adapts her turn design by increasingly aligning towards that of the novice English speakers. The TA initially attempts to make use of rhetorical discourse structures, such as by playing devil’s advocate and providing up-shot summaries of the test-takers’ prior talk; however, a detailed sequential analysis of the talk reveals that such strategies do not generate significant follow-up turns from the students. Adopting a longitudinal CA approach demonstrates the way the TA, as a novice language teacher, develops her pedagogical tactics in situ according to the style and level of the students with whom she is interacting. As such, the study provides insight into one novice professional’s natural acquisition of teaching skills, and, more generally, into the way that speakers adapt their interactional practices across multiple and subsequent episodes of a given conversation.
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发表时间:
2008
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作者:
Greer;T;Tim Greer
通讯作者:
Tim Greer