Contents // The author and series editors vi // Introduction vii // Section One: Defining 1 // 1 Defining classroom interaction 3 // 1.1 Classroom action 3 // 1.2 Action and reaction 5 // 1.3 Classroom interaction 6 // 1.4 Co-operation and conflict 8 // 1.5 Communication 10 // 2 Defining communication in the classroom 12 // 2.1 Who 12 // 2.2 Why 14 // 2.3 What 15 // 2.4 How 16 // 2.5 Methodology and language 18 // 3 Defining interaction analysis 20 // 3.1 Interaction analysis 20 // 3.2 Interaction analysis in the language classroom 22 // 3.3 Analysing language in the language classroom 25 // 3.4 Analysing methodology in the language classroom 25 // 3.5 Analysing affect in the language classroom 29 // 3.6 The parts . . . and the whole 30 // 4 Defining communicative events in the classroom 32 // 4.1 The speech event 32 // 4.2 The learning event 33 // 4.3 Accessible and acceptable 35 // 4.4 Verbal interaction 37 // 4.5 Pedagogic interaction 39 // Section Two: Describing 43 // 5 Describing classroom language 45 // 5.1 To find out about language: Sinclair and Coulthard 45 // 5.2 To find out about teaching and learning: BIAS 48 // 5.3 To find out about the language classroom: Bowers 53 // 5.4 To tell teachers what to do: Willis 56 // 6 Describing classroom methodology 60 // 6.1 Observation instruments 60 // 6.2 Mitchell and Parkinson 60 // 6.3 COLT (Communicative Orientation of Language // Teaching) 65 // 6.4 TALOS (Target Language Observation Scheme) 65 // 6.5 Teaching methodology:
description 69 // 6.6 Teaching methodology: prescription 72 // 6.7 Teaching and learning: the student 75 // 7 Describing classroom affect 78 // 7.1 As an observer: one man’s meat ... 78 // 7.2 As a teacher: ‘humanistic’ techniques 79 // 7.3 Counselling Language Learning 81 // 7.4 Suggestopedia 82 // 7.5 The Silent Way 83 // 7.6 As a student: feeling and learning 84 // 8 Describing classroom learning events 86 // 8.1 The pedagogic code: methodology 86 // 8.2 Using the code: activity sequences 88 // 8.3 Interaction: lessons and conversations 90 // 8.4 The participants: teacher, student . . . and textbook 91 // 8.5 The setting: when and where 95 // Section Three: Exploring 99 // 9 Exploring language in your classroom 101 // 9.1 Patterns of verbal interaction 101 // 9.2 Functions of classroom language 103 // 9.3 Language in the language classroom 107 // 10 Exploring methodology in your classroom 113 // 10.1 Using observation instruments 113 // 10.2 Raising teacher awareness 118 // 10.3 Finding out about the learner 121 // 11 Exploring affect in your classroom 125 // 11.1 The observables 125 // 11.2 The teacher 128 // 11.3 The student 130 // 12 Exploring learning events in your classroom 136 // 12.1 Methodology 136 // 12.1 The participants 138 // 12.3 Setting 141 // Glossary 145 // Further reading 148 // Bibliography 149 // Index 151