1st Edition
The Practical Nature of L2 Teaching A Conversation Analytic Perspective
Drawing on video recordings and transcripts from a wide range of L2 teaching contexts, The Practical Nature of L2 Teaching presents a comprehensive examination of eight sets of specialized actions and action sequences involved in whole group instruction.
Each of the chapters highlights in exquisite detail the sophisticated, real-world accomplishment of L2 teaching. The purpose is not to impose a vision of how L2 teaching should be done. Instead, it is to illuminate its complexities and, in so doing, reveal informative differences between idealized understandings of L2 teaching and its lived realities.
The book is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers studying and working in the areas of classroom interaction, L2 teaching, and L2 teacher education.
Preface
Chapter 1 The Practical Work of L2 Teaching: A Conversation Analytic Perspective
Chapter 2 Sequencing Instruction: Opening, Transitioning, and Closing Instructional Projects
Chapter 3 Turn Taking: Managing Student Participation Opportunities
Chapter 4 Framing Activities: Giving Instructions
Chapter 5 Leading Whole Group Activities: Information-Seeking Sequences
Chapter 6 Aligning and Affiliating: Mobilizing Learner Contributions
Chapter 7 Epistemics in the L2 Classroom: Building and Displaying Knowledge
Chapter 8 Facilitating Learning: Assessing and Correcting Learners’ Errors
Chapter 9 Repair and Self-Talk: Handling Troubles in Speaking and Hearing and Other Unexpected Moments
Chapter 10 The Practical Nature of L2 Teaching: Postscript
Appendix
Index
Biography
Joan Kelly Hall is Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research draws on conversation analysis and interactional linguistics to document the specialized interactional practices and actions of teaching-and-learning found in instructional settings.
Yingliang He is a PhD candidate in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University. His research uses conversation analysis to investigate academic discourse. He has also conducted work in cognitive linguistics on cross-cultural and cross-linguistic conceptual metaphors.
Su Yin Khor is Professor of Writing and Rhetoric and Director of the Writing Program at College of the Atlantic. Her research focuses on second language learning and teaching, specifically second language writing, literacy, and language socialization.
Using naturally occurring classroom interaction data as the basis for the identification of teachables, this book proves to be an excellent outlet for language teachers and teacher educators as a data-led example of evidence-based L2 teaching.
Doç. Dr. Ufuk Balaman, TED University, Türkiye
By setting classroom practices against the backdrop of their counterparts in everyday interaction, Hall, He, and Khor throw into sharp relief what makes the practical work of second language (L2) teaching unique. With thoughtfully designed pre-reading questions, guided analyses, and post-reading activities, the authors have not only offered us a state-of-art account of L2 teaching but also immense opportunities to engage with the reality of L2 teaching first-hand. The volume will serve as an excellent text for any second language teacher training program that takes classroom interaction seriously.
Hansun Zhang Waring, Teacher College, Columbia University, USA
