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Get it together
Smit, Nienke
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Exploring the dynamics of teacher-student interaction in English as a foreign language lessons
1. Scaffolding in the language lesson cannot be measured as one high inference observation point, but is better understood as a flexible and adaptive repertoire of teaching strategies. (Chapter 2)
2. Any classroom observation instrument should be part of an observation system in which trained raters, rating procedures and characteristics of the sample also play crucial roles. (Chapter 2)
3. Observations of teacher questions and learner answers can provide insight in dynamic patterns of active participation. (Chapter 3)
4. Teachers can derive a lot of information about their students’ language learning from carefully listening to their answers. (Chapter 3)
5. Co-construction of meaning is a joint interactive process that needs to be man-aged by teachers and students together. (Chapter 4)
6. If active student participation is a prerequisite for learner engagement, teachers should not be the most active people in the room. (Chapter 4)
7. Before setting up an educational intervention, implicit behavioral patterns need to be uncovered by systematic observations of micro-dynamics (Chapter 4). 8. Any student answer can be used by teachers as feedback about the learning
process. (Chapter 5)
9. Silence is also a student answer. (Chapter 5)
10. Micro-level observations of teacher and learner behavior provide important feedback for teachers and learners, because verbal routines in the language classroom emerge from the way teachers and learners respond to each other from moment to moment. (Chapter 6)
11. Optimal co-construction of meaning in the foreign language classroom sounds like a symphony. (Chapter 6)
12. Get it together can be understood as an efficient way of saying that “Growth of mind is always growth assisted from outside” (Jerome Bruner, 1971:82).
Nienke Smit 25 Maart 2021
