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Atar, Cihat; Seedhouse, Paul; Walsh, Steve – Online Submission, 2022
This study aims to investigate the interactional organization of English teachers' acknowledgment followed by type-specific questions. Shaping learners' contributions via acknowledgment and type-specific questions is argued to be a part of Classroom Interactional Competence as the 5th skill in language teaching. Hence, this two-step move is…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Standard Spoken Usage
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Alsaadi, Nadia Saeed M.; Atar, Cihat – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2019
This study aims to investigate wait-time, more specifically student reaction wait-time, in high school English as a foreign language classrooms with specific regard to two classroom micro-context modes (the classroom context mode and material mode). The data was collected via audio-recordings of classroom interaction in its natural context. The…
Descriptors: Student Reaction, Questioning Techniques, English Instruction, English (Second Language)
Akkaya, Gökhan; Atar, Cihat – Online Submission, 2015
This study investigates the role of code-switching (CS) between Turkish (L1) and English (L2) in Turkish EFL (English as a foreign language) classroom interaction. It aims at describing and analyzing the pedagogical functions and sequential organization of CS in teacher talk. The research draws on the recordings of four intermediate level…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Classroom Communication, Interaction, Turkish