📖 Teachers' Wait-time Practices in EFL Classroom Discourse. Conversation analysis with sociocultural theory.

Pairing the methodological power of conversation analysis with the conceptual framework of sociocultural theory, this book portrays in details of interaction how teachers' wait-time practices create and/or inhibit learners' participation opportunities in EFL classroom discourse. Drawing on a number of episodes from naturally-occurring classroom interactions, this book provides evidence-based materials for teacher education programs which aim at raising teachers' awareness of the relationship between their language use and the moment-by-moment unfolding of pedagogic goals in L2 classroom discourse.