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Language Learning, Discourse and Cognition: Studies in the tradition of Andrea TylerEdited by Lucy Pickering and Vyvyan Evans
[Human Cognitive Processing 64] 2018
► pp. 37–62
Chapter 2Discourse management strategies revisited
Building on Tyler’s early insights regarding international teaching assistant comprehensibility
This chapter revisits Tyler’s early research on ITA comprehensibility while also considering recent work on instructional discourse. The purpose of the study is to explore Tyler’s early conclusions regarding the sources of listeners’ perception of incoherence in ITA classroom discourse. Following Tyler’s methodology, the data collected consists of videotapes of the same lab session taught by four different TAs, two native speakers and two non-native speakers. The transcripts of the lab sessions are analyzed in terms of the use of discourse management strategies to determine the differences between native speaker and non-native speaker TAs. Finally, we discuss how those differences may affect ITA comprehensibility as well as implications for ITA training.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Theoretical assumptions
- 3.Tyler’s early work on discourse management strategies of ITAs
- 3.1Repetition
- 3.2Discourse markers
- 4.Methodology
- 4.1Data collection
- 4.2Data analysis
- 5.Analysis and discussion
- 5.1Repetition
- 5.2Discourse markers
- 5.2.1The use of and
- 5.2.2The use of and then
- 5.2.3The use of so
- 5.2.4Macro-level discourse markers
- 6.Limitations
- 7.Recommendations for future research
- 8.Implications for ITA training
- 9.Conclusion
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Published online: 20 December 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.64.03tap
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.64.03tap
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