Date

Classroom observation and research VMAN14

Shona WHYTE October 2015

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Audio VMAN121

✤ audio diaries

✤ digital tools: Google site + SoundCloud

✤ homework

VMAN14

✤ stage + observation (Laboz, Whyte)

✤ classroom research (Whyte)

1. pass or fail2. preparation …

VMAN14 Teaching placement

✤ Rectorat: school, tutor

✤ ESPE: Mme Ceravolo

✤ status as trainee (=stagiaire)

✤ ethics of observing other teachers

✤ opportunities …

VMAN14 Classroom research

✤ exploring learner language

✤ interlanguage pragmatics

Exploratory talk (effective collaboration

in the classroom)Neil Mercer

https://thinkingtogether.educ.

cam.ac.uk/

Tarone: exploring learner language

✤ narrative task prompt

Requests (Yates)

1. It’d be cool if you could move up one.

2.Get us a pie, mate.

3. If you could just grab a copy of that for a moment.

4.I was wondering if I could have, um, 3 weeks annual leave?

5. Would it be OK if I handed my assignment in next Monday?

6. Could you just pop that up there for me?

7. Do you wanna move over ?

a. in a secondary school class

b. in a lecturer’s office

c. at university

d. in a plane, before take-off

e. in the audience of a school concert

f. in a car park

g. in an office

h. on a footpath

As you work, explain

✤ why you match each request to each setting

✤ what you think the various speakers’ age, gender, or occupation might be

✤ what the role-relationship between the speaker and the addressee might be

✤ what the speaker wants the addressee to do in each case

✤ how each speaker softens his or her request and why each chooses to do it that way

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