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‘BEING THE TEACHER’: IDENTITY AND CLASSROOM CONVERSATION Taking into account this reading about identity and classroom conversation between teacher and students, as we know in the language classes, the teacher is who has control in the context of communicative language teaching and the students just follow the rules of the teacher and they follow him/her through questions that the teacher is doing at the moment, providing them a communicative context, in this sense, the language learners need to be exposed to a variety of interactional types not only related to the teacher’s questions where the teacher already knows the answer, in other words, with this action we can still observe the teacher’s control in the classroom. The initiation response-follow up or feedback (IRF) is a common factor that we as teachers can observe within the classroom because we as teachers start the class maybe through a question expecting that one student in a voluntary way answering it and then, the tea...

This video is From  George Psathas a professor from the University of Boston, in this video he talks about the concepts of ethnomethodology, phenomenology, and sociology, but at the same time he talks about some similarities that they have into the Conversation analysis.

ADDRESSING IRAQI ELF/LEARNER DISCOURSE INTERACTIONS IN TASK-BASED CLASSROOM             The main objective of language teachers is to create communication inside of the classroom where students can communicate with verbal or non-verbal patterns related to social interactions, where learners have to follow certain roles like what kind of activities they are going to carry out, who asks the questions, in this case, the teacher, and what kind of questions are going to be implemented (display or referential questions), and in many cases, the teacher (who has the power) is the one who selects the student in order to answer a specific question, however, those patterns make that the classroom discourse inside of the classroom is somewhat restricted and learners cannot have a natural interaction or communication.             Classroom discourse was divided into four (4) structures...

WHAT MAKES A TEACHER IDENTITY AND CLASSROOM TALK             This reading provides how the teachers build the teachers identity through the discourse in the classroom. According to Fajardo, the language classroom is a context where interaction is developed and it plays an important role for the second language learning, also the language classroom provides the role of power, language, interaction, and organization where the teacher starts developing the language teacher.             According to Cooley (1992) when he refers to “looking glass self” is because as we know it is used to describe or to observe the process in which a person, in this case, the teacher can see different points of view about how society (students) see them and use the mirror as a type of interaction where he can develop the language teacher.           ...

CONVERSATION AND CONVERSATION ANALYSIS The conversation is one of the most important uses of human language, since through this one people can develop their own identities and culture, also conversation allows people to socialize and develop their relationships with each other, it is called linguistic code or communication, but the conversation is not only the use of words also, exist the non-linguistic code, it means that conversation can also be represented through body movements (body language). Conversation presents groups of social rules where it provides what topics are appropriate or how language has to be used in order to get a maximum effect which it makes an appropriate conversation but it also depends on the culture, the context and the polite society, also it is important to understand the conversation as a linguistic activity. THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONVERSATION ANALYSIS In this part, the conversation analysis is related to the ethnomethodology as a field of sociolog...

SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES According to the text, it would have four principal themes regard conversation and discourse analysis where they explain some differences and similarities. Sociology’s priorities will be appearing in chapters on classic theoretical approaches and some methodological approaches and some methodological discussions, where will find topics such an education, gender, and social inequality, work, crime, criminal the justice system, religion and so on. However, psychologist tends to focus on the cognitive and development aspects of the language, it means that while sociology (discourse analysis) and psychology (conversational analysis) are distinctive because they focus explicitly on language as social action. The data collection that sociological research uses is the informal or semi-formal interview where researchers solicit various kinds of discourse like reports, descriptions, anecdotes, and so on, nevertheless, the discourse data will be analyzed as a...