GENERAL LINGUISTICS

This was an activity developed in class. In pairs, we have to analyze one extract of someone else’s transcription. It was a good exercise for the analysts as well as for the owners of the extract. 

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...