Balenvan-etal2024b
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Balenvan-etal2024b |
| Author(s) | Johanna van Balen, Myrte N. Gosen, Siebrich de Vries, Tom Koole |
| Title | Taking Learner Initiatives within Classroom Discussions with Room for Subjectification |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Classroom Interaction, learner initiative, mothertongue education, subjectification, conversation analysis |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Classroom Discourse |
| Volume | 15 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 123-142 |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/19463014.2022.2128689 |
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Abstract
This study shows how learner initiatives are taken during classroomdiscussions where the teacher seeks to make room for subjectifica-tion. Using Conversation Analysis, subjectification can be observedwhen students take the freedom to express themselves as subjectsthrough learner initiatives. Drawing on data from classroom discus-sions in language and literature lessons in the mother tongue, theauthors find that learner initiatives can be observed in three differ-ent ways: agreement, request for information, counter-response.A learner initiative in the form of an agreement appears to functionmostly as a continuer and prompts the previous speaker to reclaimthe turn, while the I-R-F structure remains visible. In contrast, mak-ing a request for information or giving a counter-response ensuresmostly a breakthrough of the I-R-F-structure and leads toa dialogical participation framework in which multiple studentsparticipate. Findings illustrate that by making a request for informa-tion or giving a counter-response, students not only act as anindependent individual, but also encourage his peers to do so.
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