1st Edition

Theorizing Pedagogical Interaction Insights from Conversation Analysis

By Hansun Zhang Waring Copyright 2016
    170 Pages
    by Routledge

    170 Pages
    by Routledge

    Pedagogical interaction can be observed through many different landscapes, such as the graduate seminar, the writing skills center, the after-school literacy program, adult ESL classrooms, and post-observation conferences. By viewing these settings through the lens of conversation analysis, this volume lays the groundwork for three principles of pedagogical interaction: competence, complexity, and contingency. The author explores these principles and how they inform what makes a good teacher, how people learn, and why certain pedagogical encounters are more enlightening than others. Drawn from the author’s original research in various pedagogical settings, this volume collects empirical insights from conversation analysis and contributes to theory building.

    Theorizing Pedagogical Interaction will appeal to students and scholars in applied linguistics, educational linguistics, and communication studies who are interested in the discourse of teaching and learning.

    Acknowledgements

    Chapter 1: Introduction

    Chapter 2: Issues in Classroom Discourse

    Chapter 3: Conversation Analysis

    Chapter 4: Principle of Competence

    Chapter 5: Principle of Complexity

    Chapter 6: Principle of Contingency

    Chapter 7: Competence, Complexity, and Contingency: An Embodied Theory

    Appendix

    Biography

    Hansun Zhang Waring is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics & TESOL at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.