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The materials reported in this article are part of an MA dissertation in TESL/TEFL submitted to the University of Birmingham by the writer. This small case study attempts to examine the role of a Female teacher and the amount and type of attention she pays to her mixed-sex classroom of young Japanese learners in an immersion english kindergarten classroom. Methodologically, Sinclair and Coulthard’s classroom discourse analysis framework, and Farooq’s categories for analyzing gender-based classroom interaction were adopted and modified in order to analyze transcribed classroom data of the teacher student interactions which were then coded into the designated categories. As the space in this article does not allow the entire dissertation of 265 pages, including transcripts and appendixes, the present report is focused on identifying the problem and its significance, as well as to provide a literature review and outline the objectives of the study based on gaps and recommendations from the literature review. |
