Teacher's Interactional Feedback in “Teen Conversation 1” Class

Interactional Feedback and Instructional Counterbalance

This comparative analysis of teacher-student interaction in two different instructional settings at the elementary-school level (18.3 hr in French immersion and 14.8 hr Japanese immersion) investigates the immediate effects of explicit correction, recasts, and prompts on learner uptake and repair. The results clearly show a predominant provision of recasts over prompts and explicit correction, ...

Extracting Social Meaning: Identifying Interactional Style in Spoken Conversation

Automatically extracting social meaning and intention from spoken dialogue is an important task for dialogue and information extraction applications. We describe a system for solving the new task of detecting elements of interactional style: whether a speaker is awkward, friendly, or flirtatious. We create and use a new spoken corpus of approximately 1000 4-minute speed-dates. Participants rate...

Surprise As an Interactional Achievement: Reaction Tokens in Conversation*

when encountering “unexpectedness” (Reizenzein 2000) or “expectancy violations” (Scherer, Zentner, and Stern 2004)—is commonly regarded as a fundamental human emotion (Ortony and Turner 1990; Strongman 2003). Like other “basic” or “primary” emotions—happiness, sadness, fear, anger, and disgust—it is typically inferred from characteristic facial expressions, bodily postures, and vocalizations (T...

: examining l2 teachers’ corrective feedback types in relation to learners’ uptake, proficiency levels, and context types

abstract this study investigates the teachers’ correction of students’ spoken errors of linguistic forms in efl classes, aiming at (a) examining the relationship between the learners’ proficiency level and the provision of corrective feedback types, (b) exploring the extent to which teachers’ use of different corrective feedback types is related to the immediate types of context in which err...

Learner Articulation as Interactional Achievement: Studying the Conversation of Gesture