Naming an activity: Arriving at recognitionals in team-teacher planning talk

Team talk and team activity in simulated medical emergencies: a discourse analytical approach

BACKGROUND Communication errors can reduce patient safety, especially in emergency situations that require rapid responses by experts in a number of medical specialties. Talking to each other is crucial for utilizing the collective expertise of the team. Here we explored the functions of "team talk" (talking between team members) with an emphasis on the talk-work relationship in interdisciplina...

Teacher Talk: From Theory to Practice

Arriving at an agile framework for teaching software engineering

This paper describes the pathway by which have arrived at teaching a particular combination of agile and structured methodologies in a software engineering course within a vocational computing degree. The background of teaching to a pure structured approach is followed by descriptions of eight iterations of increasing agility. The current approach: the “agile framework” is introduced and descri...

EFL Classroom Discourse in Iranian Context: Investigating Teacher Talk Adaptation to Students’ Proficiency Level

How language teachers talk is a key factor in organizing and facilitating learning specifically in language classrooms where the medium of instruction is also the subject matter. This study aimed to examine the extent and ways of teacher talk adaptation to students’ proficiency levels in the Iranian EFL context. Two EFL teachers who were teaching three different proficiency levels were observed...

The Analysis of Teacher Talk in "Learner-centered" Teaching Mode

Being main teaching media and major source of comprehensive target language input, teacher talk plays an important role in learners' second-language acquisition. Under the trend of "learner-centered" teaching mode, some researchers think that the best teacher talk means less. But the author holds that, in Chinese second language classroom, it is not advisable to lay too much stress on the forma...