EKIA3001 Pedagogical Practices in Classroom Interaction (5 cr)

Content

The course introduces a range of key interactional practices that teachers and students employ to accomplish pedagogical goals in second (L2) and foreign language (FL) classrooms. The interactional practices include such phenomena as teacher questions, student responses, student questions, and teacher evaluations, among others. Another aim of the course is to introduce a set of core theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of classroom interaction (e.g. DA, CA and ethnography) through the course readings and short lectures. The course will offer both practical pedagogical insights and research methodological perspective to students.

Completion methods

Contact teaching

No alternative mode of completion for the course is offered: this is very much a hands-on course, where face-to-face discussions and data workshops comprise the core activities of the course.

Assessment details

The course assessment is based on students’ active participationduring lectures and in carrying out a small- scale ethnographic observation task. Students are also required to present their initial work to peers and submit a written report. The final grade consists of 30% self- and teacher evaluation and 70% course task.

After completing the course, students will be

• familiar with a variety of teachers' and students' interactional practices employed in second and foreign language teaching and learning
• familiar with core theoretical and methodological approaches in the study of classroom interaction, including discourse analysis, conversation analysis and ethnographic microanalysis
• comfortable making observations and transcripts of interactional data as well as analyzing classroom interaction
• able to carry out a small-scale research project on an interactional phenomenon in an L2/FL classroom or another kind of learning setting

Attencance policy: 80%

It is highly recommended that students have taken KOPA1000 Johdatus kielen oppimisen ja opettamisen tutkimukseen and EKIA315 Current Issues in Teaching English / EKIA3010 Teaching English Today, but this is not obligatory. 

Required and recommended readings will be provided at the beginning of the course in Moodle.