Teacher and students' discourse analysis in a foreign language computer mediated classroom

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John Harlinto Mesa-Vallejo
Diego Mauricio Nitola-Merchán
Carlos Arturo Valdiri-Rojas

Abstract

When analyzing conversational spontaneous issues like, classroom interaction, IRF cycle, teacher talk, overlapping, and adjacency pairs inside a virtual environment in a Colombian public technical institution, we found that these aspects support the pedagogic purpose of the class and at the same time, they display the teacher and students' identity while performing a foreign language lesson. The participants of the analysis were an English teacher and his 6 students in a computer mediated-environment with a double way interaction tool (a chat bar and an audio interchange program). The findings from this discourse analysis between the teacher and students' interaction revealed that the virtual environment has some common dynamics to the face to face setting and that managerial mode has an outstanding place in this kind of classroom.

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Mesa-Vallejo, J. H., Nitola-Merchán, D. M., & Valdiri-Rojas, C. A. (2018). Teacher and students’ discourse analysis in a foreign language computer mediated classroom. Quaestiones Disputatae: Temas En Debate, 11(23), 157-172. Retrieved from http://revistas.ustatunja.edu.co/index.php/qdisputatae/article/view/1683
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Articulos Vol. 11
Author Biographies

John Harlinto Mesa-Vallejo

Holds a B.A. in Foreign Languages from the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. He works as a full-time teacher at Universidad de Boyacá.

Diego Mauricio Nitola-Merchán

Holds a B.A in Modern Languages: Spanish-English from Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. He works as a full-time teacher at  Instituto Internacional de Idiomas at Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia.

Carlos Arturo Valdiri-Rojas

Holds a B.A in Modern Languages: Spanish-English from Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. He works as a full-time teacher at  Instituto Internacional de Idiomas at Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. He is an active member of the research group RETELE from Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia.

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