EKIA3001 Interactional and Pedagogical Practices in Classroom Interaction (5 cr)

The course introduces a range of interactional and pedagogical practices that teachers and students employ to accomplish pedagogical goals in second (L2) and foreign language (FL) classrooms. These include such phenomena as teacher and student questions, student responses and teacher evaluations, and what purposes these serve. Another aim of the course is to introduce some theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of classroom interaction through the course readings and short lectures. The course will offer both practical pedagogical insights and research methodological perspective to students.

After this course, students will be:

• familiar with a variety of teachers' and students' interactional and pedagogical practices employed in second and foreign language teaching and learning,

• familiar with some theoretical and methodological approaches in the study of classroom interaction,

• familiar with the ethical principles that guide classroom interaction research,

• comfortable making observations and transcripts of interactional data as well as analyzing classroom interaction, and

• able to carry out a small-scale ethnographic project on an interactional phenomenon in a learning setting.

Required and recommended readings will be available in Moodle.