Native Speaker TESOL Teacher's Talk: Examining the Unexamined
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Doherty, Catherine
Singh, Parlo
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2008
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In this paper we provide a critical analysis of "native-speaker"TESOL teachers' classroom talk and interview data collected from English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs in an Australianuniversity to move beyond commonsense ideas of how their talkmight resource the language classroom. Using the sociolinguisticconcept of "frame", we analyse episodes of talk from the classroompractices of two teachers. We examine the complexity of layered meanings produced as the teachers teach and simultaneously provide linguistic instruction on the language that is vicariouslyproduced in their talk or the activity. We propose that ...
View more >In this paper we provide a critical analysis of "native-speaker"TESOL teachers' classroom talk and interview data collected from English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs in an Australianuniversity to move beyond commonsense ideas of how their talkmight resource the language classroom. Using the sociolinguisticconcept of "frame", we analyse episodes of talk from the classroompractices of two teachers. We examine the complexity of layered meanings produced as the teachers teach and simultaneously provide linguistic instruction on the language that is vicariouslyproduced in their talk or the activity. We propose that unexamined,native speaker teacher talk, although well-intentioned, can also carry risks that might make it problematic for the language learner.The two extracts reveal two potential problems-the nativespeaker's agility in con/textual shifts, and the native-speaker's capacity to cumulatively rephrase classroom questions and addunnecessary syntactic complexity that was not in the initial question.
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View more >In this paper we provide a critical analysis of "native-speaker"TESOL teachers' classroom talk and interview data collected from English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs in an Australianuniversity to move beyond commonsense ideas of how their talkmight resource the language classroom. Using the sociolinguisticconcept of "frame", we analyse episodes of talk from the classroompractices of two teachers. We examine the complexity of layered meanings produced as the teachers teach and simultaneously provide linguistic instruction on the language that is vicariouslyproduced in their talk or the activity. We propose that unexamined,native speaker teacher talk, although well-intentioned, can also carry risks that might make it problematic for the language learner.The two extracts reveal two potential problems-the nativespeaker's agility in con/textual shifts, and the native-speaker's capacity to cumulatively rephrase classroom questions and addunnecessary syntactic complexity that was not in the initial question.
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Journal Title
English Teaching & Learning
Volume
32
Issue
2
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© 2008 National Taiwan Normal University. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version.
Subject
English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL)
Specialist Studies in Education
Cultural Studies
Language Studies