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KEYWORDS
Conversation Analysis, Corrective Feedback, IRF sequence, Teacher Echo
ABSTRACT
Although MEXT has been promoting that English should be taught in English, a survey conducted by MEXT in 2023 shows English teachers in 13.3 % of junior high schools and less than 10 % of senior high schools speak English for over 75 % of class time. In this context, how classroom discourse can be conducted or how English teachers give responses to students in English is likely to be overlooked. In conversations between a teacher and students, there tend to be corrective feedback or initiation-response-feedback (IRF) sequences. When a teacher asks a question and a student answers, the teacher sometimes repeats exactly the same thing the student has just said or says part of the answer. This repetition can be classified as a type of corrective feedback or “teacher echo.” This form of feedback has been described as both beneficial and harmful in scholarly research. Using conversation analysis, this presentation will explore how teacher echo works and how it can affect learning in the English classroom. (167 words)
| TITLE | Functions of Teacher Echo in Teacher-Student Conversation |
|---|---|
| RELEVANT SIG | Teacher Development |
| FORMAT | Practice-oriented Oral Face-to-face presentation (25 minutes, including Q&A) |
| First-time presenter? | First-time presenter |
