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5B - “I Have a Question”

A Corpus-Based Analysis of Target Discourse in Office-Hour Interactions

from Part II - Tasks and Needs Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2021

By
Ayşenur Sağdıç  and
Derek Reagan
Edited by
Mohammad Javad Ahmadian  and
Michael H. Long
Mohammad Javad Ahmadian
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
Michael H. Long
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park
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Summary

This study reports on a task-based analysis of target discourse by examining a corpus of naturally occurring face-to-face office-hour interactions between English-speaking students and instructors at a US university. Fourteen office hours involving 106 interactants were extracted from the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English and coded for types of office hours, sub-tasks, and pragmatic and interactional features. Based on the findings, a prototypical model of an office-hour interaction was produced, which can serve as a sound basis for developing genuine pedagogic tasks for teaching EAP students the necessary second language pragmatics to navigate office-hours.

Keywords

Analysis of target discoursetask-based language teachingsecon language pragmaticsoffice-hourscorpus pragmaticsEnglish for academic purposes
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The Cambridge Handbook of Task-Based Language Teaching , pp. 188 - 202
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Taguchi, N. and Kim, Y. (2018), eds. Task-based approaches to teaching and assessing pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.Google Scholar
Youn, S. J. (2018). Task-based needs analysis of L2 pragmatics in an EAP context. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 36, 86–98.Google Scholar

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