Dr Phiona Stanley P.Stanley@napier.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Making sense of not making sense: Novice English language teacher talk
Stanley, Phiona; Stevenson, Marie
Authors
Marie Stevenson
Abstract
This qualitative study critically examines the intelligibility of the teacher talk of novice native speaker English language teachers. It focuses on difficulties teachers face in adjusting their own English so that their learners can understand them. The paper uses two data sources: learners’ perceptions of recorded teacher talk and analysis of the teacher talk itself. For the teacher talk analysis, the study develops an integrated framework based on key concepts from Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). This analysis showed the complex interplay between different levels of meaning, as well as the roles played by both the immediate situational context and the broader cultural context. In particular, the analysis illustrated the crucial roles that both textual meaning (i.e. coherence and cohesion) and context play in the intelligibility of teacher talk. The broader implications of the study for research and teaching relating to intercultural discourse both inside and outside the classroom are discussed.
Citation
Stanley, P., & Stevenson, M. (2017). Making sense of not making sense: Novice English language teacher talk. Linguistics and Education, 38, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2017.01.001
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 20, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Feb 9, 2017 |
Publication Date | 2017-04 |
Deposit Date | Feb 15, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Feb 20, 2019 |
Journal | Linguistics and Education |
Print ISSN | 0898-5898 |
Electronic ISSN | 0898-5898 |
Publisher | Elsevier |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 38 |
Pages | 1-10 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2017.01.001 |
Keywords | Teacher talk, Cambridge CELTA, Intelligibility, Language grading |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1556833 |
Contract Date | Feb 20, 2019 |
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