Publications

Publication details [#45696]

Lee, Yo-An. 2007. Third turn position in teacher talk: Contingency and the work of teaching. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (1) : 180–206.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | ethnomethodology | feedback | teacher | turn

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this article shows how teachers' third turn in ESL classroom interactions, enacting their pedagogical work, completes the contingent task of answering students' prior turns whilst pushing interaction forward.