Classroom Discourse
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An international journal published by Routledge. Edited by Olcay Sert & SilviaKunitz. 2024 CiteScore: 3.7 (Q1), SNIP: 1.231; WOS IF: 1.6. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rcdi20
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Classroom Discourse
Volume 17, Issue 3 of Classroom Discourse
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September 26, 2026 at 2:06 PM
The new issue of Classroom Discourse is now out! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcdi20/1... 👇
Recipient designed gestures: teacher’s orientation to students’ cultural membership www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #Japan #English #CA
Recipient designed gestures: teacher’s orientation to students’ cultural membership
Although a growing body of classroom research has demonstrated how teachers use gestures to facilitate students’ comprehension in both language learning contexts and other subject domains, few stud...
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September 10, 2026 at 6:50 AM
Recipient designed gestures: teacher’s orientation to students’ cultural membership www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #Japan #English #CA
Involved but not engaged? Dynamic camera manipulations as resources for communicating participation in video-mediated educational interactions #openaccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Involved but not engaged? Dynamic camera manipulations as resources for communicating participation in video-mediated educational interactions
Using multimodal conversation analysis, the present study investigates what interactional accomplishments result from ‘dynamic camera manipulations’ that participants employ in video-mediated educa...
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September 10, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Involved but not engaged? Dynamic camera manipulations as resources for communicating participation in video-mediated educational interactions #openaccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“You don’t say ‘tempo, allegro’”: coteaching and shaping learner language in CLIL classroom interaction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“You don’t say ‘tempo, allegro’”: coteaching and shaping learner language in CLIL classroom interaction
Originally proposed for inclusive education, coteaching has gradually broadened to other areas, including Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). Prior research indicates that CLIL content...
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September 10, 2026 at 6:48 AM
“You don’t say ‘tempo, allegro’”: coteaching and shaping learner language in CLIL classroom interaction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Multimodal engagement-oriented metadiscourse in lead-in interactions: evidence from Chinese EFL classrooms www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Multimodal engagement-oriented metadiscourse in lead-in interactions: evidence from Chinese EFL classrooms
This study investigates how engagement-oriented metadiscourse, operationalised through engagement markers, shapes lead-in interactions in Chinese EFL classrooms. Although metadiscourse has been wid...
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September 10, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Multimodal engagement-oriented metadiscourse in lead-in interactions: evidence from Chinese EFL classrooms www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Student talk and teacher response during demonstration writing: discursive and epistemic positioning in a first-grade writing workshop www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Student talk and teacher response during demonstration writing: discursive and epistemic positioning in a first-grade writing workshop
Although demonstration writing is typically treated as a teacher-led instructional practice, this study examines how first-grade students initiated spontaneous talk during writing mini-lessons and ...
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September 10, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Student talk and teacher response during demonstration writing: discursive and epistemic positioning in a first-grade writing workshop www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Is disagreement in academic conversation a sign of knowledge superiority? #openaccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Is disagreement in academic conversation a sign of knowledge superiority?
There is ample research on ‘disagreement’ in conversation analysis (CA) in diverse contexts and cultures. However, the literature on sources of disagreement is scarce. Moreover, little is known abo...
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September 10, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Is disagreement in academic conversation a sign of knowledge superiority? #openaccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Identity construction and learning opportunities in word search sequences in L2-L2 Chinese conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Identity construction and learning opportunities in word search sequences in L2-L2 Chinese conversations
Drawing on approximately 13 hours of video-recorded interactions among second language (L2) Chinese speakers participating in conversation tables in China, this study investigates how participants ...
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September 10, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Identity construction and learning opportunities in word search sequences in L2-L2 Chinese conversations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Pursuing a ‘writeable’ response in L2 oral placement tests: examiners’ recipient design practices on the same topic with multiple test takers (Walper & Leyland, Newcastle Uni.) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @newcastleuni.bsky.social @katherina-walper.bsky.social @chrisleylandncl.bsky.social
Pursuing a ‘writeable’ response in L2 oral placement tests: examiners’ recipient design practices on the same topic with multiple test takers
Language education institutions world-wide regularly use Oral Placement Tests (OPTs) to diagnose test-takers’ second language (L2) accuracy and fluency to place them in the most appropriate class. ...
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May 3, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Pursuing a ‘writeable’ response in L2 oral placement tests: examiners’ recipient design practices on the same topic with multiple test takers (Walper & Leyland, Newcastle Uni.) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @newcastleuni.bsky.social @katherina-walper.bsky.social @chrisleylandncl.bsky.social
New article out! Navigating grammar explanations in online pedagogical interaction: a sequential account (by Mark Romig) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @lansi2024.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social
Navigating grammar explanations in online pedagogical interaction: a sequential account
Research on grammar pedagogy has shed much light on the effectiveness of different types of instruction (e.g. explicit vs. implicit, focus on form vs. focus on forms, etc.), but how grammar is expl...
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January 11, 2026 at 5:14 PM
New article out! Navigating grammar explanations in online pedagogical interaction: a sequential account (by Mark Romig) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @lansi2024.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social
New article out! An exploratory study on secondary teachers’ conceptualisation of the cognitive discourse function ‘define’ and its scaffolding in classroom interaction (by Eneritz Garro Larrañaga, Amaia Lersundi & Karmele Perez-Lizarralde) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
An exploratory study on secondary teachers’ conceptualisation of the cognitive discourse function ‘define’ and its scaffolding in classroom interaction
This exploratory study examines how content and language teachers conceptualise the cognitive discourse function (CDF) define, and presents the scaffolding strategies they propose to overcome poten...
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January 11, 2026 at 5:13 PM
New article out! An exploratory study on secondary teachers’ conceptualisation of the cognitive discourse function ‘define’ and its scaffolding in classroom interaction (by Eneritz Garro Larrañaga, Amaia Lersundi & Karmele Perez-Lizarralde) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New article out! Participation and language learning opportunities: a case study of two adult Iranian English learners from a positioning theory perspective (by Fateme Salehi-Amiri & Mohammad R. Hashemi) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Participation and language learning opportunities: a case study of two adult Iranian English learners from a positioning theory perspective
This study explores the influence of classroom positioning practices on learner participation and their access to learning opportunities in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting. Drawing o...
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January 11, 2026 at 5:11 PM
New article out! Participation and language learning opportunities: a case study of two adult Iranian English learners from a positioning theory perspective (by Fateme Salehi-Amiri & Mohammad R. Hashemi) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New #openaccess article out! Storytelling in history classrooms: moving through historical empathy and analysis (by Björn Kindenberg) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Storytelling in history classrooms: moving through historical empathy and analysis
This study investigates how oral storytelling in history classrooms can foster historical understanding by engaging students both emotionally and analytically. Drawing on classroom observations and...
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January 11, 2026 at 5:09 PM
New #openaccess article out! Storytelling in history classrooms: moving through historical empathy and analysis (by Björn Kindenberg) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New article out! Designing and negotiating proposals in collaborative storytelling: interactional organisation of decision-making among autistic and non-autistic students (by Anniina Kämäräinen, Katja Dindar, Eija Kärnä & Anni Kilpiä) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Designing and negotiating proposals in collaborative storytelling: interactional organisation of decision-making among autistic and non-autistic students
This study investigates how a group of three fifth-grade students – one autistic and two non-autistic – collaboratively create a fictional story through proposals and joint decisions. The video-rec...
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January 11, 2026 at 5:07 PM
New article out! Designing and negotiating proposals in collaborative storytelling: interactional organisation of decision-making among autistic and non-autistic students (by Anniina Kämäräinen, Katja Dindar, Eija Kärnä & Anni Kilpiä) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New article out! Phonemic handshape isolation in American Sign Language #ASL vocabulary instruction, by Alyson Horan @lansi2024.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Phonemic handshape isolation in ASL vocabulary instruction
With the growing body of sign language research across linguistic fields, there remains a sizeable gap in the area of cross-modality sign language instruction, particularly in the field of conversa...
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December 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
New article out! Phonemic handshape isolation in American Sign Language #ASL vocabulary instruction, by Alyson Horan @lansi2024.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A review of our book "Conversation analysis and language teacher education: Intervention studies" (with Prof Hansun Waring, @teacherscollege.bsky.social ) is now out in Language and Education! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Conversation analysis and language teacher education: Intervention studies
Published in Language and Education (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A review of our book "Conversation analysis and language teacher education: Intervention studies" (with Prof Hansun Waring, @teacherscollege.bsky.social ) is now out in Language and Education! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Volume 16, Issue 3 of Classroom Discourse is now out! The first article, by Xiaoyun Wang, Xiaoting Li & Shui Li, explores how teachers use DIUs & other multimodal resources to pursue student responses to their questions in Chinese as a second language classrooms www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 👇
Pursuing student response through incomplete syntax, prosody, bodily- and visuo-orthographical resources in Chinese-as-a-second-language classrooms
This study investigates how teachers use designedly incomplete utterances (DIUs) and other multimodal resources to pursue student responses to their questions to accomplish particular pedagogical t...
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November 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Volume 16, Issue 3 of Classroom Discourse is now out! The first article, by Xiaoyun Wang, Xiaoting Li & Shui Li, explores how teachers use DIUs & other multimodal resources to pursue student responses to their questions in Chinese as a second language classrooms www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 👇
New #openaccess article out! Oral interaction patterns in work-related activities in teaching and interviews for language practice placements: L2 teaching for adults in Sweden (by Robert Walldén & Åsa Wedin) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Oral interaction patterns in work-related activities in teaching and interviews for language practice placements: L2 teaching for adults in Sweden
This study explores oral interaction in work-related activities within adult second-language (L2) education in Sweden, specifically in the context of Swedish for Immigrants (SFI). Drawing on data f...
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November 2, 2025 at 9:06 PM
New #openaccess article out! Oral interaction patterns in work-related activities in teaching and interviews for language practice placements: L2 teaching for adults in Sweden (by Robert Walldén & Åsa Wedin) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New article out! Children’s multilingual sensemaking practices: an analysis of small-group intercomprehension activities (by Chiara Facciani) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Children’s multilingual sensemaking practices: an analysis of small-group intercomprehension activities
This paper presents a study conducted in an Italian primary school involving 21 students exposed to multilingual pedagogies for 5 years. The multilingual class represents nine languages in addition...
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November 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
New article out! Children’s multilingual sensemaking practices: an analysis of small-group intercomprehension activities (by Chiara Facciani) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A review (by Eunseok Ro) of "Conversation analysis and language teacher education: Intervention studies" (eds. Olcay Sert and Hansun Zhang Waring) is now out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... @sertolcay.bsky.social @lansi2024.bsky.social #intervention #EMCA #classroom #teacher #education
Conversation analysis and language teacher education: Intervention studies
Published in Classroom Discourse (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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October 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A review (by Eunseok Ro) of "Conversation analysis and language teacher education: Intervention studies" (eds. Olcay Sert and Hansun Zhang Waring) is now out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... @sertolcay.bsky.social @lansi2024.bsky.social #intervention #EMCA #classroom #teacher #education
New #openaccess article! “Huh?” “Good!”: teaching conversational repair in introductory #L2 classrooms (by Michiko Kaneyasu, University of California) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Huh?” “Good!”: teaching conversational repair in introductory L2 classrooms
Over the past decade, a growing effort has been made toward the practical application of findings and insights from Conversation Analysis (CA) in second language (L2) teaching, with the goal of bet...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
New #openaccess article! “Huh?” “Good!”: teaching conversational repair in introductory #L2 classrooms (by Michiko Kaneyasu, University of California) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New #openaccess article out! Pre-service #teachers´ interaction with students manifested in speech turns– a case study of #interaction and #acoustic analyses (by Kati Järvinen, Anna-Leena Kähkönen, Pasi Nieminen & Terhi Mäntylä - University of Jyväskylä) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Pre-service teachers´ interaction with students manifested in speech turns– a case study of interaction and acoustic analyses
In the classroom, teacher-student interaction has a vital role in learning. Interaction is constructed by interpersonal communication consisting of verbal and non-verbal communication. When analysi...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
New #openaccess article out! Pre-service #teachers´ interaction with students manifested in speech turns– a case study of #interaction and #acoustic analyses (by Kati Järvinen, Anna-Leena Kähkönen, Pasi Nieminen & Terhi Mäntylä - University of Jyväskylä) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New #openaccess article out in Classroom Discourse! Implications of #materials use in a shop encounter #roleplay in #Finnish as an #L2 #classroom #interaction – a comparison of two types of task materials (by Katriina Rantala, University of Oulu, Finland) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Implications of materials use in a shop encounter roleplay in Finnish as an L2 classroom interaction – a comparison of two types of task materials
This study uses multimodal conversation analysis to examine the influence of learning materials on a second language classroom task interaction. The data comes from tasks where beginner-level adult...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
New #openaccess article out in Classroom Discourse! Implications of #materials use in a shop encounter #roleplay in #Finnish as an #L2 #classroom #interaction – a comparison of two types of task materials (by Katriina Rantala, University of Oulu, Finland) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Our edited volume (w/ Hansun Waring, Teachers College, Columbia University) "Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education: Intervention Studies" is now out! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #CA #EMCA #teachereducation #teaching #interaction #classroom
Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education
This volume brings together studies that document practice-based changes in which conversation analysis plays a role.
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August 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Our edited volume (w/ Hansun Waring, Teachers College, Columbia University) "Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education: Intervention Studies" is now out! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #CA #EMCA #teachereducation #teaching #interaction #classroom
New article out in Classroom Discourse!: "Forms of becoming: elementary students’ self-positioning in writing" (by Maryam Khosronejad, Mary Ryan & Lauren Alexandra Weber). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Forms of becoming: elementary students’ self-positioning in writing
This paper investigates 15 elementary aged children’s self-positioning in writing. To this purpose, we examine how children perceive and represent themselves through their engagement with writing r...
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July 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
New article out in Classroom Discourse!: "Forms of becoming: elementary students’ self-positioning in writing" (by Maryam Khosronejad, Mary Ryan & Lauren Alexandra Weber). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....