Conversational Data: Sociocultural Discourse Analysis (SCDA, Mercer, 2004) |
Dialogic moves |
(REQ) Requesting information |
„What should we be focusing on?” |
(BUI) Building on information |
„And we could then split them into groups” |
(REA) Providing evidence for reasoning |
„Because there’s little time” |
(CHA) Challenging |
„It’s not that! I think he just wants to seem different” |
(SUP) Supporting |
„Yes, I think so too” |
Scope of conversation |
(S1) One student |
„Gabriel said exactly what we wanted it to” |
(S2) More/all students |
„Kids learn this stuff quickly” |
(TR1) The teachers’ own reflections/ emotions |
„I did not feel at all watched, I felt supported” |
(TR2) Both/ all teachers’ reflections/emotions |
„Generally, when you’re doing this kind of activity, other kids might catch our eyes” |
Learning processes |
(DL) Descriptive |
„He’s not shying away from saying what he thinks. He’ll say “Hey I am singing I love girls…” |
(IL) Interpretative |
„I like this about him” |
Interview data: Chronotopical analysis & Positioning Theory |
Chronotopical analysis |
(IC) Personal chronotopes |
„I was really stressed in the beginning...I did not think it was going to go well and things are going to work out” |
(SC) Shared chronotopes |
„She said to ask them to present ...I did not think of it. It was her idea (....) I am really curious to see what she will say to me tomorrow because we need to move forward from here (...) And I am going to see what she thought of. And we will come up with an idea” |
(PC) Public chronotopes |
„Teachers don’t want to because they are scared of an idea they are not familiar with” |
Positioning Theory |
(P) Positioning |
„We cannot change their destiny, but we can do something about their chances, and we don’t” |
(BP) Being positioned |
„The teacher should not be the person good for everything” |