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Publication Date: 2020
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Topic Management and Student Initiation in an Advanced Chinese-as-a-Foreign-Language Classroom
Dolce, Frank M.; van Compernolle, Rémi A.
Classroom Discourse, v11 n1 p80-98 2020
The focus of this article is on topic management and student initiation in the context of an advanced university-level Chinese-as-a-foreign-language class. Drawing on a corpus of 17.5 h of video-recorded classroom interactions, we focus on the ways in which students initiate topic expansions, thereby disrupting the IRF structure of discourse and enhancing learning opportunities. We identified three types of student-initiated topic expansions: genuine questions, topic elaborations and challenges to teacher assertions. We discuss our findings in relation to the enhancement of content and language learning opportunities, and we highlight several avenues for future research and implications for pedagogy.
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Student Participation, College Students, Video Technology, Interaction, Classroom Techniques, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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