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Re: [iatefl_pronsig] Teacher intonation

Some of these might help:

Sinclair J & Brazil D 1982 Teacher Talk (OUP)
Hewings M 1987 Intonation and feedback in the EFL classroom, in
Coulthard M (ed.) Discussing Discourse (English Language Research,
University of Birmingham)
Willis J 1987 Inner and outer: Spoken discourse in the language
classroom, also in Coulthard M (ed.)
Barr P 1990 The role of discourse intonation in lecture comprehension,
in Hewings M (ed.) Papers in discourse intonation (English Language
Research, University of Birmingham)
Cullen J 1990 The teacher's intonation when using personal pronouns: a
language classroom study, also in Hewings (ed.)

Jonathan

pronsig_mod pisze:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I've been doing some transcriptions of classes recently, and one thing
> that has struck me has
> been just how strange teacher language is in terms of the mix of
> quotes, reading out
> passages/instructions etc, and statements such as "We have to use have
> to when we want to
> talk about...", plus interpersonal comments, instructions, talking to
> yourself etc. Does
> anyone know of any research into how teachers use prosody to mark
> whether something is a
> quote, or display, or reference to grammar etc.? and whether students
> really pick up on this?
>
> Alex.
>
>



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Hi there, I've been doing some transcriptions of classes recently, and one thing that has struck me has been just how strange teacher language is in terms of...
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Feb 22, 2008
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Some of these might help: Sinclair J & Brazil D 1982 Teacher Talk (OUP) Hewings M 1987 Intonation and feedback in the EFL classroom, in Coulthard M (ed.)...
Jonathan Marks
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Feb 24, 2008
12:35 pm

Cheers for those Jonathan. Not easy books to find. I did get my hands on a copy of 'Teacher Talk'. I can't help feeling that it's an out-dated approach -...
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Mar 1, 2008
10:44 pm

I still think some of the 'Birmingham' stuff might be of interest. Or you could look for hints in more general writings such as Tsui: Introducing classroom...
Jonathan Marks
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Mar 4, 2008
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Yeah, I was too harsh about the Birmingham format for analysis. It does give a basic framework that's fairly effective. Where I find most of the approaches to...
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