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Publication details [#67183]

Shively, Rachel L. and Montserrat Mir. 2019. “Put a little bit of humor into it”. Teachers’ humor in the beginning-level Spanish classroom. Applied Pragmatics 1 (2) : 93–118.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
classroom conversation | humor | joking | rapport-management theory | student | teacher
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Journal DOI
10.1075/ap

Annotation

This inquiry explores the use of teacher humor in whole-group interactions in beginning-level Spanish foreign language (FL) classes. In classes in which teachers joked more often, there was a tendency for students to joke more often as well, suggesting that teacher humor may encourage student humor.