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BEING THE TEACHER’: IDENTITY AND CLASSROOM CONVERSATION By Yenny Bautista Pinzón Conversational analysis has played an important role in the educational field, although some scholar do not pay too much attention to this methodology as a tool to address different issues in the classroom. Some others claim that by exploring the interaction opportunities set in a classroom, people understand and enhance in this case; language learning processes. It is mentioned in the paper that conversation and interaction is something that is possible in a classroom, social actions are occurring all the time in this institutional setting were the participants, teacher and students are playing an specific role, it can be said that identities are constructed while social interaction. The author arises a discussion about the presence of the patters found in the IRF cycle in the different classroom settings. According to some studies developed, they revealed that 70 and sometimes 50 percen...

ADRESSING IRAQI EFL TEACHER/ LEARNER DISCOURSE INTERACTIONS IN TASK BASED CLASSROOMS By yenny Bautista Pinzón Based on the text it can be understood that classroom discourse is a kind of discourse that is realized in the classroom, it differs from the other sorts of discourse because the specific roles the participants play and the king of activities to which they are exposed. Conversations framed in institutional setting are somehow regulated by the rules and the conceptions of the institutions.              Through classroom discourse, it can be observed different aspects like power relationships, turn taking, and issues of interaction among others, at the beginning it sounds not really valuable to analyze classroom discourse, but it can be helpful at the moment of understanding what is really happening around the classroom interaction and if the goal of communication have been really achieved. The kind of language u...

This is a video made to a professor of the University of Boston, George Psathas. In this video, he talks about conversation analysis, cover topics like the machinery in which oral texts are produced. And he talks about orderliness in conversations. Watching this video clarifies issues about CA.

WHAT MAKES A TEACHER: IDENTITY AND CLASSROOM TALK By Yenny Bautista Pinzón This a study carried out by José Alberto Fajardo Castañeda. The main goal of this study is to get a closer view of teachers’ professional identities from the perspective of interaction in the language classroom. The discourse setting was taking from a group of 20 adult learners, 19 females and 1 male studying English in a monolingual Spanish context. The teacher appears as an experience professional who displays a friendly environment where students laugh and there is communicative encouragement. Three extracts of classroom observation where analyzed the issues were emerging with the turns took by the participants. During the analysis of this data, many concerns emerged in terms of identity, talk interaction, turn taking, power relationships, and institutional interaction among others. According to the researcher, a language classroom is an essential setting where social actions take place during i...

CONVERSATION AND CONVERSATION ANALYSIS By Yenny Patricia Bautista Pinzón Always that I used to talk about conversation analysis a lot of thoughts came to my mind about what was the real importance of analysing conversation, so what it for? Based on my believes I said it was a waste of time. Who can cares about conversation and even more conversation in the classroom, but reading about discourse, discourse analysis and now conversation, I can say that conversation is one of the most relevant uses of human language, so it deserves our complete attention and more if we are language teachers, in other words linguists. According to the text it can be said that conversation is part of our daily life, every day we are enrolled in conversational interaction, language is part of us as human beings, and conversation gives human society some kind of order. Conversation is present in every relationship, when people socialize and interact with each other. Every time there is a convers...

SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES By Yenny Bautista Pinzón This paper aims to address the similarities and differences between conversational analysis and discourse analysis; it is important to mention that these two concepts share assumptions and approaches to some extent. When some other issues emerge about the focus of research and the methodological concerns, which inform empirical analysis, the differences start to appear. Similarities The similarities are organized taking into account the following topics: talk as topic for analysis, attention to properties of data, the influence of ethnomethodology, and accusations of triviality. Talk as topic Phycologist tends to focus on the cognitive and developmental aspects of language but in this part both, conversational analysis and discourse analysis, they focus specifically on language as social interaction. Critical discourse analysis examine discourse as a theme in its own right, and not as a reflection of wider structural...