Publications

Publication details [#57373]

Sert, Olcay. 2013. ‘Epistemic status check’ as an interactional phenomenon in instructed learning settings. Journal of Pragmatics 45 (1) : 13–28.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | epistemic logic | knowledge | pedagogy | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study discusses how English as a foreign language teachers in a Luxembourg public school start ‘epistemic status checks’ (ESCs) in response to certain non-verbal student displays of insufficient knowledge, and assign the turn to another student, in order to advance classroom activity.