Theorizing Pedagogical Interaction: Insights from Conversation Analysis

by Hansun Zhang Waring

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317614890
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/06/2015
Series:	Routledge Research in Education
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	170
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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