Based on the concept of interactional competence (Hellermann, 2008; Seedhouse, 2004; Walsh, 2011; Young, 2008), our study analyzes how learners of Spanish as a foreign language in a B2 level manage repair in oral interaction in language classrooms. We understand repair as “the treatment of trouble in talk-in-interaction” (Young, 2008, p. 49). A corpus of eleven interactions between students in the classroom is analyzed through the perspective of Conversation Analysis. The interactions were collected in different kinds of tasks in the language classroom. In our analysis we compare interactions produced in practice activities and interactions collected during assessment. The findings in this study show a tendency to manage repair in classroom oral interaction as it would be done in normal conversation. Regarding the different contexts of our corpus, we observe that, in interactions produced in assessment contexts, speakers try to protect their interlocutor’s face and their own face by avoiding to make repairs.
La organización secuencial de las reparaciones en interacciones entre profesora y alumnos de español como lengua extranjera centradas en el significado: repercusión en la intersubjetividad y la competencia interaccional de los hablantes (Batlle Rodríguez, 2015). Didacticae, 4, 164-166. 164 TESIS DOCTORAL La organización secuencial de las reparaciones en interacciones entre profesora y alumnos de español como lengua extranjera centradas en el significado: repercusión en la intersubjetividad y la competencia interaccional de los hablantes
Reseña. ‘A tomar por el culo’. Análisis interaccional de las identidades conversacionales y de la reorganización de roles en una charla sin monopolizadores del turno, por Alicia Sentí Janssen, 2018LINCOM GmbH, 135 pp., 64,80 €, ISBN: 978-3862888894
Speaking an additional language (AL) is one of the challenges that students face. The interactional skills required for communication, on the other hand, are not explicitly taught. In this paper, we examine nine paired interactions in an oral exam from a B1 level French (FAL) course. The aim is to describe interactional strategies, specifically those that involve the use of oui, in order to identify students’ learning needs. The findings confirm the polyfunctionality of oui, which is directly related to its position. Furthermore, we conclude that its overuse is a response to the learners’ lack of other markers in their lexical repertoire as well as the characteristics of the assessment task.
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