a frame analysis of teacher talk in 3 elementary school

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1、th25InternationalConferenceofEnglishTeachingandLearning2008InternationalConferenceonEnglishInstructionandAssessmentAFrameAnalysisofTeacherTalkinThreeEFLElementaryClassroomsLi-hsuehHung,Teh-suanLioulovelyheidi.tw@yahoo.com.twAbstractThisstudyinvestigatedteachertalkinEFLcontextfromf

2、rameanalysisperspective.VariousframesandfootingsofteachertalkbythreeTaiwaneseEFLelementaryteacherswereidentifiedandfunctionalswitchofframesandfootingswasexplored.ParticipantsinthisstudywerethreeprimaryschoolEnglishteachersandtheirthreeclasses.Classroomobservationsandfieldnoteswere

3、employedfordatacollection.Overthirty40-minutelessons,audio-andvideo-taped,werecollectedandtranscribedverbatim.Resultsofthestudyrevealed:(1)fiveofthetenfootingsweremostfrequentlyusedbythethreeteachers.Thefrequencyanddistributionoffootingssuggestedindividualdiscoursestructuresandtea

4、chingstylesoftheteachers,whichdisplayedorientationtotheteachingmaterialmattersandtheinterpersonalmatters.(2)thecoordinatefigurewithfourquadrantsofintegratedfootingsshowedthatthethreeteachersmostlyadoptedtheauthoritativefootingswhilepracticingtheirclasses.(3)theswitchingnatureoffoo

5、tingprimarilyservedasaspotlighttodirectstudents’attentiontotheinstructionaltaskatthatmoment.Themodelallowstheanalysttoseethedifferencesbetweenfootingsandvariedteachingmodesorstylesamongthethreeteachers.Keywords:discourseanalysis,frameanalysis,frame,footing,EFLclassroom,teachertalk

6、IntroductionDespitethefootingsandfootingshiftsaresignificant,thereisnotmuchexplorationonthem.Theresearchersassumethatfootingsareessentialinrevealingthenatureofteachertalkandcannotbeavoidedinclassroominteraction.Teacher’sfootingsandfootingshiftscanbeexaminedthroughclassroomobservat

7、ionandteachertalkrecording,anditispossibletoperceivewhatframetheteacherwasinandwhathis/herresponsewastotheeventinthatframeatthatmoment.Usingauthenticteachertalkfromtheperspectiveofframeanalysis,thisstudyattemptstohelpteachersunderstandwhattoemphasizeandhowtoadjusttheirownteachinga

8、ccordingly.Thus,thepresentstudyai