Cultivating Multivocality in Language Classrooms: Contribution of Critical Pedagogy-Informed Teacher Education

Autor: Mohammad Khatib, Mowla Miri
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Critical Inquiry in Language Studies. 13:98-131
ISSN: 1542-7595
1542-7587
DOI: 10.1080/15427587.2015.1137197
Popis: Transmission-based language classrooms have been mostly dominated by teachers' authority, as reflected in IRF (Teacher Initiation, Student Response, Teacher Follow up/Feedback) architecture of their discourses. By contrast, Critical Pedagogy (CP) has been after fostering multivocality in and out of classroom borders. Which qualities of teacher talk can cultivate multivocality has remained underexplored, however. To address this lacuna, two typical sessions of an English language teaching (ELT) teacher, totalling 210 minutes, were audio- and video-recorded, narrowly transcribed and analyzed through Conversation Analysis (CA) methodology. Then the teacher participated in a CP-informed teacher education program (TEP) lasting 20 sessions, whose focus of six was on multivocality. After the TEP, another two sessions of the teacher's classroom was recorded and analyzed. Results of the study revealed that before the TEP, the growth of multivocality was curbed by some teacher moves such as “teacher echo,” “limited...
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