Lehtonen, Heini Møller, Janus Spindler
Published in
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
In this paper, we analyze two instances of interactional breakdown in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms in Copenhagen and Helsinki. Our focus is situations where teachers request the use of minority languages from pupils, and pupils react reluctantly and display embarrassment. These situations represent sociolinguistic spaces of upse...
Quasthoff, Uta Heller, Vivien Prediger, Susanne Erath, Kirstin
Published in
European Journal of Applied Linguistics
This study uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the interplay of linguistic and subject-matter learning. Drawing on previous linguistic work on discourse and genre acquisition, subject-matter teaching as well as the convergence of linguistic and content learning in multilingual classrooms, the study seeks to examine the following questions...
Wakke, Denise Heller, Vivien
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology
This study examines interactions in which students help each other with their learning during classroom instruction, forming groups in the process. From a conversation analytic perspective, helping is assumed to be a sequentially organized activity jointly accomplished by the participants. As an activity that proceeds alongside other ongoing classr...
Hayek, Christine
I takt med att flerspråkiga elever förekommer alltmer i dagens skolverksamheter är det väsentligt för lärare att ha kännedom kring elevernas erfarenheter och kunskaper. Studiens syfte är att öka kunskapen om hur grundskollärare med inriktning årskurs 4–6, anpassar sin undervisning för att främja flerspråkiga elevers språkutveckling i svenskämnet. D...
Reséndiz Balderas, Evelia
En el artículo se analiza el papel de las explicaciones en la clase de matemáticas, primer semestre de ingeniería, cuando la noción de variación está siendo usada por tres profesores y cuando los estudiantes intervienen a propósito de dicha noción. Mediante un enfoque cualitativo-interpretativo, la recopilación de datos se obtiene del registro de g...
Wedin, Åsa Norlund Shaswar, Annika
This article focuses on students’ oral production in two classrooms in Swedish for immigrants (SFI). The study takes its theoretical ground in sociocultural a sociocultural view on language and education and an understanding of language as multiple and changing resources. Data was obtained through observations, field notes, and audio- and video-rec...
Wang, Yingna Marecki, Mateusz
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology
The second wave of positive psychology (PP 2.0) focuses on the way positive and negative psychology complement each other in social contexts. It offers a balanced interactive model that aims at enhancing the optimal learning outcome through the interplay of positive and negative emotions. Building on a large qualitative study of students’ and teach...
Smit, Nienke van Dijk, Marijn de Bot, Kees Lowie, Wander
Published in
International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
Real-time verbal interactions between foreign language teachers and their students are of vital importance for language development, but classroom interactions are also multi-faceted and complex. The way a teacher understands and responds to learner utterances can be a powerful pedagogical strategy to scaffold learner language development. In this ...
Walldén, Robert Nygård Larsson, Pia
The aim of this article is to contribute knowledge about how figurative language from literary texts is negotiated through oral interaction in second-language instruction. The material consists of transcriptions of recordings from a classroom study of basic adult second-language instruction involving two teachers and their two student groups. Theor...
Rocío Contreras Espinosa, Ximena Michell Villamizar Mantilla, Karen
This qualitative case study seeks to understand the importance of interaction in an A1-English language course at a public university in Colombia. Data were collected through six non-participant observations and four semi-structured interviews. Data were organized and analyzed by using MAXQDA software. These instruments provided enough information ...
