Conversation Analytic Perspectives on English Language Learning, Teaching and Testing in Global Contexts

Published by Multilingual Matters 2019

Conversation Analytic Perspectives on English Language Learning, Teaching and Testing in Global Contexts

Edited by: Hanh thi Nguyen and Taiane Malabarba

In the series New Perspectives on Language and Education

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781788922890

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About this book

Offers a unique conversation analytic approach to issues in English language learning, teaching and testing

This book contains 10 empirical studies of English language learning, teaching and testing where English is an additional language. Focusing on English-as-a-Foreign-Language contexts, they involve varied learner populations, from children to young adults to adults, in different learning environments around the world.

Author / Editor information

Nguyen Hanh thi :

Hanh thi Nguyen is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English and Applied Linguistics at Hawaiʻi Pacific University. Her research interests include the development of interactional competence in a second or professional language, social interaction in language learning situations and learners’ transforming identities.

Malabarba Taiane :

Taiane Malabarba is Assistant Professor in the Language Department at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil. Her research interests include EFL teaching and learning, classroom interaction, language policy and teacher education.

Hanh thi Nguyen is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English and Applied Linguistics at Hawai'i Pacific University. Her research interests include the development of interactional competence in a second or professional language, social interaction in language learning situations and learners' transforming identities.

Taiane Malabarba is Assistant Professor in the Language Department at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil. Her research interests include EFL teaching and learning, classroom interaction, language policy and teacher education.

Reviews

Speaking 'global' with a breathtaking diversity of authors, issues, and geographical regions, Nguyen and Malabarba’s carefully curated volume offers exciting new exhibits of how conversation analysis may be usefully combined with other investigative approaches to address such central applied linguistic issues as learning, teaching, and testing.

This well-written, insightful volume provides rich empirical details illuminating the constraints and possibilities of English language learning, teaching, and testing in diverse contexts where English is an additional language or a workplace lingua franca. The fine-grained analyses showcasing the realities of EFL at the micro level of social activity reveal important implications for ELT policies and practices around the world.

This volume offers an empirically grounded and theoretically informed panorama of the interactional practices involved in EFL education across a rich variety of national and educational contexts. It provides a powerful demonstration of how a conversation analytic perspective allows us to uncover the affordances and challenges of language learning, teaching and testing as social processes.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. Introduction: Using Conversation Analysis to Understand the Realities of English-as-a-Foreign-Language Learning, Teaching and Testing Taiane Malabarba and Hanh thi Nguyen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1: Learners’ Development of Interactional Competence
2. Embodied and Occasioned Learnables and Teachables in an Early EFL Classroom Maria Vanessa and Søren Wind Eskildsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
3. Developing Interactional Competence in a Lingua Franca at the Workplace: An Ethnomethodologically Endogenous Account Hanh thi Nguyen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Part 2: Teaching and Testing Practices as Dynamic Processes
4. Looking Beyond IRF Moves in EFL Classroom Interaction in China Jingya Li Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
5. EFL Trainee Teachers’ Orientations to Students’ Non-understanding: A Focus on Task Instructions Dilara Somuncu and Olcay Sert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
6. Handling Unprepared-for Contingencies in an Interactional Language Test: Student Initiation of Correction as a Collaborative Accomplishment Eric Hauser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
7. Closing Up Testing: Interactional Orientation to a Timer During a Paired EFL Oral Proficiency Test Tim Greer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Part 3: Sociocultural and Ideological Forces in Language Teaching
8. The ‘Power Game’: Interactional Asymmetries in EFL Collaborative Language Teaching Josephine Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
9. Collision of Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in Iranian EFL Classroom Interaction Mostafa Pourhaji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
10. ‘In English, Sorry’: Participants’ Orientation to the English-only Policy in Beginning-level EFL Classroom Interaction Taiane Malabarba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
11. Teaching English in Marginalized Contexts: Constructing Relevance in an EFL Classroom in Rural Southern Mexico Peter Sayer, Taiane Malabarba and Leslie C. Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	268
12. Commentary: Fault Lines in Global EFL Johannes Wagner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307

Language: English
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: EFL; English as a Foreign Language; classroom discourse; conversation analysis; learning English; teaching English; interactional competence; Brazil; China; Denmark; Iran; Japan; Korea; Mexico; Turkey; Vietnam

eBook

Published: February 26, 2019
ISBN: 9781788922890