A corpus-based look at short turns in university
classroom interaction
期刊名称: Corpus Linguistics & Linguistic Theory
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下载作者: Csomay,Eniko朱霞石年份: 2012年
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期号: 第1期
关键词: corpus linguistics; classroom interaction; English for Academic Purposes;alp
pdhlexical patterns; turn-length; short turn; talk-at-turn
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手诊摘要:The aim of the present study is to explore the lexical content of short turns in university classroom discourse. Corpus-based techniques were applied to identify a large number of turns to analyze their lexical content in over two hundred university class sessions. The findings show that, although students take sixty per cent of the turns in our university classrooms, they use only twenty per cent of the total number of words. Consequently, students would produce short turns most of the times while teachers would engage in longer stretches of talk. The results also indicate that short turns generally mark intensive interactional sequences. More specifically, a closer look at the lexical items in these short turns and the functions they serve clearly show that while teachers offer support, elicit further elaboration