Negotiating meaning in seminar-type discussion and EAP  

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Basturkmen, Helen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 21 no. 3 (2002), page 233-242.
Fulltext: 21_03_Basturkmen.pdf (110.34KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ESP/21 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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As a basis for course and materials design, EAP teachers need descriptions of discourse in academic events. This paper reports on a study exploring patterns of discourse organisation in seminar-type discussions. Analysis was made of patterns of sequential organisation in discussions between students in UK university seminars. It revealed two main patterns of organisation: simple exchanges of pre-formed ideas and more complex exchanges that enabled ideas to emerge and be negotiated in interaction. This pattern shows interlocutors jointly organising and constructing text. To illustrate this more complex pattern, sample interaction is presented. It is argued that this particular kind of negotiation of meaning is important in enabling students to develop their own ideas in discussion. It is suggested that patterns of organisation whereby students negotiate meaning and co-construct discourse and the type of interlocutor behaviour underlying this can be used to complement conventional language description of discussion for EAP.

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