Flood2023
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Flood2023 |
| Author(s) | Virginia J. Flood, Benedikt W. Harrer |
| Title | Kinetically-held questions: Representational gesture post-stroke holds in whole-class interactions in STEM |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Classroom interaction, Conversation analysis, Gesture, Embodied teaching, IRE/F sequences, IRE-sequences, Whole-class discussions, STEM education |
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| Year | 2023 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Linguistics and Education |
| Volume | 75 |
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| Pages | eid: 101164 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.linged.2023.101164 |
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Abstract
Teachers use “kinetically-held” questions by freezing representational gestures and holding them during Initiation-Response-Evaluation/Feedback (IRE/F) sequences in whole-class interactions. Drawing on Kendon's gesture studies and ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, we illustrate the role representational gesture post-stroke holds can play in (1) typical 3-part IRE/F sequences, (2) topically related sets of IRE/F sequences, and (3) expanded sets of reformulated IRE/F sequences. Our analysis demonstrates how held representational gestures in IRE/F sequences contribute to both (a) organizing multiparty participation and (b) providing durable, visuospatial support for the co-construction of classroom knowledge. This study contributes to a better understanding of the understudied phenomenon of how teachers use the timing and temporality of representational gestures in STEM classroom interactions.
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