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This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article published in its final definitive form in 2017. For re-use rights please refer to the publishers terms and conditions.
As a means of furthering their talk, co-present participants will on occasions orient to environmentally available text, such as that in a book or on a computer screen. This sort of action commonly relies on a combination of both embodied and spoken interactional practices to enable elements of the written language to become part of the ensuing talk. Such actions as pointing to part of a page or gazing at an illustration and then naming it can help establish a joint focus of attention, particularly in talk in which the textual object plays a role in future activities the participants are discussing. This study uses conversation analysis to suggest that textual objects therefore become an affordance for turn progressivity, since they contain language components that can serve as both potential prompts and turn-incorporable elements. The data are taken from Japanese/English bilingual interaction video-recorded between elementary and junior high educators who are preparing to team-teach English classes in Japan. We examine this phenomenon in two distinct sequential contexts:(1) devising a plan and (2) sharing a plan. The study provides insight into the ways inscribed objects can be used to facilitate interaction within the professional practice of team-teacher planning.
Author(s): Greer T, Leyland C
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice
Year: 2017
Volume: 14
Issue: 2
Print publication date: 26/11/2020
Online publication date: 26/11/2020
Acceptance date: 01/01/2016
Date deposited: 09/02/2022
ISSN (print): 2040-3658
ISSN (electronic): 2040-3666
URL: https://doi.org/10.1558/jalpp.33667
DOI: 10.1558/jalpp.33667
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