Mentor invitations for reflection in post-observation conferences: Some preliminary considerations
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Hansun Waring Zhang
Hansun Zhang Waring is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she teachers Conversation Analysis, Advanced Conversation Analysis, and Discourse Analysis. Her work has appeared in journals such asApplied Linguistics, TESOL Quarterly, Language Learning, The Modern Language Journal, Research on Language and Social Interaction, Journal of Pragmatics, Text and Talk, and Discourse Studies . She is author (with Jean Wong) ofConversation analysis and second language Pedagogy (Routledge, 2010).
Abstract
Despite the push for fostering reflective practices in teacher education in the last twenty years, true reflection remains a rare commodity (Farr, 2010). By placing four video-recorded mentor-teacher meetings under the conversation analytic (CA) microscope, I show how specific mentor practices work in stimulating reflection to various degrees of success. Findings of this study illuminate the complexities of inviting and offering reflection, and in so doing, contribute to a growing understanding of teacher learning as well as the practices for fostering such learning (Johnson, 2009).
About the author
Hansun Zhang Waring is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she teachers Conversation Analysis, Advanced Conversation Analysis, and Discourse Analysis. Her work has appeared in journals such as Applied Linguistics, TESOL Quarterly, Language Learning, The Modern Language Journal, Research on Language and Social Interaction, Journal of Pragmatics, Text and Talk, and Discourse Studies. She is author (with Jean Wong) of Conversation analysis and second language Pedagogy (Routledge, 2010).
©2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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- Frontmatter
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- Globalization in the margins: toward a re-evalution of language and mobility
- Co-construction of ``doctorable'' conditions in multilingual medical encounters: Cases from urban Japan
- EFL motivation development in an increasingly globalized local context: A longitudinal study of Chinese undergraduates
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- Special Thematic Section
- The effectiveness of Lingua Receptiva (LaRa) in multilingual communication – Editorial
- How to check understanding across languages. An introduction into the Pragmatic Index of Language Distance (PILaD) usable to measure mutual understanding in receptive multilingualism, illustrated by conversations in Russian, Ukrainian and Polish
- English as a lingua franca versus lingua receptiva in problem-solving conversations between Dutch and German students
- Receptive multilingualism in Turkish-Turkmen academic counseling sessions
- Facilitating mutual understanding in everyday interaction between Finns and Estonians
- The role of dialect exposure in receptive multilingualism
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Writing systems and language contact in the Euro- and Sinocentric worlds
- Globalization in the margins: toward a re-evalution of language and mobility
- Co-construction of ``doctorable'' conditions in multilingual medical encounters: Cases from urban Japan
- EFL motivation development in an increasingly globalized local context: A longitudinal study of Chinese undergraduates
- Mentor invitations for reflection in post-observation conferences: Some preliminary considerations
- Special Thematic Section
- The effectiveness of Lingua Receptiva (LaRa) in multilingual communication – Editorial
- How to check understanding across languages. An introduction into the Pragmatic Index of Language Distance (PILaD) usable to measure mutual understanding in receptive multilingualism, illustrated by conversations in Russian, Ukrainian and Polish
- English as a lingua franca versus lingua receptiva in problem-solving conversations between Dutch and German students
- Receptive multilingualism in Turkish-Turkmen academic counseling sessions
- Facilitating mutual understanding in everyday interaction between Finns and Estonians
- The role of dialect exposure in receptive multilingualism
- A matter of reception: ELF and LaRa compared
