Waring2015
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Waring2015 |
| Author(s) | Hansun Zhang Waring |
| Title | Promoting self-discovery in the language classroom |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Teachers, Classroom, Repair, Second language acquisition, Institutional, Applied |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching |
| Volume | 53 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 61–85 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1515/iral-2015-0003 |
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Abstract
Promoting self-discovery appears to be a general relevancy oriented to by participants not only in ordinary conversation (Schegloff et al., 1977) but also in various sorts of institutional encounters (e.g., Edwards & Stokoe, 2007). The push for self-repair, for example, is considered an important learning activity which may be inhibited or retarded by other-repair (van Lier, 1988; Ohta, 2000). The aim of this paper is to investigate the complexities of the practices utilized to accomplish promoting self-discovery in the language classroom. Based on a conversation analytic account of 30 hours of audio and video-recorded adult ESL (English as a Second Language) lessons, I show two ways in which promoting self-discovery may become problematic in its implementation. I argue that language instructors need to be sensitized to the delicate balance between promoting self-discovery and providing interactionally contingent help.
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