LINGUIST List 21.5127 Fri Dec 17 2010 Diss: Applied Ling: Mortensen: 'Instructions and Participation in ...' Editor for this issue: Mfon Udoinyang <mfonlinguistlist.org> To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Kristian Mortensen , Instructions and Participation in the Second Language Classroom Message 1: Instructions and Participation in the Second Language Classroom Date: 16-Dec-2010 From: Kristian Mortensen <kristian.mortensenuni.lu> Subject: Instructions and Participation in the Second Language Classroom E-mail this message to a friend Institution: University of Southern Denmark Program: MA in Communication Design Dissertation Status: Completed Degree Date: 2008 Author: Kristian Mortensen Dissertation Title: Instructions and Participation in the Second Language Classroom Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics Dissertation Director: Johannes Wagner Catherine E. Brouwer Dissertation Abstract: The dissertation investigates how students participate in the second language classroom. It discusses second language classroom pedagogy from looking at how students participate and display their understanding of the ongoing activity they are engaged in. More specifically, student participation is related to the teacher's instructions and the ways in which these instructions make specific kinds of participation relevant for the students. This is analyzed primarily from a communicative or interactional approach. Instructions are in this way analyzed as interactional tasks that students orient to, and deal with, during the course of the teacher's management of the lesson. 'Interactional tasks' are related to the notion of conditional relevance, and the dissertation deals specifically with sequence organization and turn-allocation. Each of the three analytic chapters, which are written as independent articles, deals with participation, instructions and conditional relevance. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 17-Dec-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.