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Date
Classroom observation and research VMAN14
Shona WHYTE October 2015
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Audio VMAN121
✤ audio diaries
✤ digital tools: Google site + SoundCloud
✤ homework
VMAN14
✤ stage + observation (Laboz, Whyte)
✤ classroom research (Whyte)
1. pass or fail2. preparation …
VMAN14 Teaching placement
✤ Rectorat: school, tutor
✤ ESPE: Mme Ceravolo
✤ status as trainee (=stagiaire)
✤ ethics of observing other teachers
✤ opportunities …
VMAN14 Classroom research
✤ exploring learner language
✤ interlanguage pragmatics
Exploratory talk (effective collaboration
in the classroom)Neil Mercer
https://thinkingtogether.educ.
cam.ac.uk/
Tarone: exploring learner language
✤ narrative task prompt
Requests (Yates)
1. It’d be cool if you could move up one.
2.Get us a pie, mate.
3. If you could just grab a copy of that for a moment.
4.I was wondering if I could have, um, 3 weeks annual leave?
5. Would it be OK if I handed my assignment in next Monday?
6. Could you just pop that up there for me?
7. Do you wanna move over ?
a. in a secondary school class
b. in a lecturer’s office
c. at university
d. in a plane, before take-off
e. in the audience of a school concert
f. in a car park
g. in an office
h. on a footpath
As you work, explain
✤ why you match each request to each setting
✤ what you think the various speakers’ age, gender, or occupation might be
✤ what the role-relationship between the speaker and the addressee might be
✤ what the speaker wants the addressee to do in each case
✤ how each speaker softens his or her request and why each chooses to do it that way
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