Stoewer2018a
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Stoewer2018a |
| Author(s) | Kirsten Stoewer |
| Title | What is it in Swedish? Translation requests as a resource for vocabulary explanation in English mother tongue instruction |
| Editor(s) | Anna Filipi, Numa Markee |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Language alternation, Mother tongue instruction, Translation, Requests, English as a heritage language, Vocabulary |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Year | 2018 |
| Language | English |
| City | Amsterdam |
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| Pages | 83–106 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/pbns.295.05sto |
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| Book title | Conversation Analysis and Language Alternation: Capturing Transitions in the Classroom |
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Abstract
The present chapter investigates teacher-initiated translation requests as spontaneous vocabulary teaching during English mother tongue instruction in Sweden. The collection-based analysis draws on a corpus of 30 hours (11 weeks) of video-recordings of compulsory school-age students. The analysis shows how the teacher routinely draws on the local availability of two shared languages to accomplish a variety of actions: to check students’ comprehension of topicalised vocabulary; to engage the entire cohort; to perform medium repair; and to prompt student production of the target language. The findings may be of relevance for numerous types of bi- and multilingual settings, where language alternation serves to augment the teaching and learning of languages as well as other subject matter.
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