Classroom discourse

Focus on form (formal aspects like he, she, it, das s muss mit)
Focus on meaning (showing empathy for example)
>both in a classroom

Similarities between utterances

• Teacher determines who is allowed to talk

L1
Target language: language that students are supposed to learn)

Teachers teach the way they were taught

TTT – STT

Some features of classroom discourse

• IRF (teacher initiation, student response, teacher feedback
• Modified language
• Elicitation (teacher asks questions, elicits students’ contributions)
• Repair (error correction)
• Student-student interaction

Password: CD2024

Written assignment
1-2 page analysis

Group work
Everyone works on a specific classroom situation
Group results have to be uploaded on moodle

15-minute online test

Weekly assignments