So what happens when the tutor walks in? Some observations on interaction in a university discussion group with and without the tutor  

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Basturkmen, Helen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of English for Academic Purposes (Full Text) vol. 2 no. 1 (2003), page 21–33.
Fulltext: Basturkmen_Helen.pdf (134.72KB)

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central concern in English for academic purposes is description of language use in target language events. In regard to spoken language use,research has aimed to describe the general features of talk across talking to learn events and to identify the speaking needs of ESL students in them. The study reported in this article takes a narrow-angled approach to description and offers an in-depth analysis of interaction patterns in just one example of one type of speaking event—the discussion class. The data comprised a video recording of a naturally occurring Master of Business Administration (MBA) discussion group before and after the unexpected arrival of the tutor. The study investigated the ways the presence and absence of the tutor impacted on the interaction,specifically on ‘exchange structures’ [Coulthard, M. & Brazil,D. (1992). Exchange structure. In M. Coulthard (Ed.), Advances in spoken discourse analysis. London: Routledge]. Analysis revealed distinctive characteristics of interaction with and without the tutor,indicating in particular the greater degree of other-oriented mutuality in the former. It is argued that findings from in-depth analyses of spoken discourse such as this can provide valuable insights for language description.

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