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o Face-to-face (f2f)
2) what are the reasons why you don’t participate in class discussion?
Are there any techniques or activities that get you personally more
interested in participating in class discussion in a second language or
literature class?
Hall (2004)
Participants and context of the study:
Data collection/methods:
Results:
Initiation-Response-Evaluation (IRE)
Initiation-Response-Feedback/Follow-up (IRF)
2) what are the reasons why you don’t participate in class discussion?
Are there any techniques or activities that get you personally more
interested in participating in class discussion in a second language or
literature class?
Possible techniques for teachers to encourage oral classroom
discourse/participation
Organize students in small groups before involving them in a whole-class
discussion.
Ask students more open-ended questions (i.e., where there are no ‘right’
answers which will naturally lead to more IRF interactions)