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The agential qualities of silence in post-observation feedback sessions

Data publikacji: 21.11.2024

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2024, Volume 141, Issue 4, s. 219 - 230

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.24.013.20463

Autorzy

Anna Bąk-Średnicka
Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8932-659X Orcid
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Tytuły

The agential qualities of silence in post-observation feedback sessions

Abstrakt

This study explores silence in a corpus of university supervisors’ (USs) utterances in the context of post-observation feedback conferences (POFCs) with their Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) supervisees. The USs’ utterances and corre­sponding silences were divided into educative, supportive and evaluative conversational frames (Long et al. 2013), with a view to discovering the extent and nature of the silent spells within these frames. It appears that silent spells within the educative frame type were a powerful means of communication comparable to reflection hubs, which could be allocated to increased “wait time” (Rowe 1972) or “slow-time” (Bruneau 1973) and could also be considered examples of social or commission silences. The agential quali­ties of this silence, though, can in certain cases be disempowered due to a tutee’s close-mindedness towards what happened during their lessons. Conversely, silent moments in the evaluative frame served to recall the observed lessons and included examples of empirical silence or omissive silence that the USs failed to use. This ethnographic research on USs’ silence is an extension of previous studies on USs’ POFCs discourse, and the self-analysis is a self-awareness-raising-tool in order that USs may become more cognizant of the ways POFCs are managed.

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Informacje: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2024, Volume 141, Issue 4, s. 219 - 230

Typ artykułu: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy

Autorzy

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8932-659X

Anna Bąk-Średnicka
Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8932-659X Orcid
Wszystkie publikacje autora →

Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce

Publikacja: 21.11.2024

Status artykułu: Otwarte __T_UNLOCK

Licencja: CC BY  ikona licencji

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