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What is Turn-Taking

Addressing Issues of Learner Diversity in English Language Education
This term visualizes the structure of dialogue on the smallest unit of turn in the form of words, phrases, clauses or sentences. The 1974’s article entitled A simplest systematic for the organization of turn-taking for conversation written by Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson gives further account for turn-taking theory in terms of definition, classification, and system.
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Analyzing Student Engagement in Teacher Elicitation: A Retrospective Discourse Analysis in a Vietnamese EFL Speaking Class
Trinh Ngoc Thanh (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education, Vietnam)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-2623-7.ch005
Abstract
This chapter highlights the importance of communication strategies to facilitate student's engagement and discusses certain situations where there are negative effects of teacher's elicitation on student's communicative ability. Being termed as retrospective discourse analysis, this chapter re-uses the ten-minute transcription extracted from a 40-minute class observation dated back in September 2011 in an EFL speaking class as a particular case to analyze discourse at the macro-level and micro-level analysis. While the macro-analysis identifies high-frequency word list and examines particular moves from teacher's elicitation and teacher's control in the classroom, the micro-analysis employs Gee (2014)'s tools of inquiry and validity components to analyze the classroom discourse. Findings from this chapter argue that teacher's elicitation plays a key role in managing classroom turn-taking and facilitating student's engagement. Furthermore, direct and short elicitation by the teacher tends to reduce student's engagement in speaking activities.
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Designing an E-Learning Curriculum
The process by which two or more people in a conversation decide who speaks next.
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Developing an Inventory to Evaluate Communication Skills of Children With Normal Hearing and Hearing Loss
Turn-taking is mutual interaction, verbal and/or non-verbal expressions are displayed in a certain order or at the same time while in communication.
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