The characteristics of individual student statement types in classroom discourse
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21030/anyp.2020.2.2Keywords:
classroom discourse, student talk, teacher talk, student statementAbstract
Earlier research has shown that students hardly talk in classes. There is, however, less information on what characterizes their individual speech. The aim of this research is to investigate the ratio of teacher talking time (TTT) and student talking time (STT) in classroom discourse based on recordings, and to define the types of statements in students’ turns. This study discusses and differentiates types of student statements during frontal teaching, based on the video recordings of ten lessons. In addition, it shows what statements students make, how long those are and to what extent the students participate in classroom discourse, based on 89 individual students’ speech. Its main purpose is to describe and demonstrate the method that helps finding and analysing individual student statements. The method of this research thus can be adapted to further investigations.