Mitigation of Suggestions and Advice in Post-Observation Conferences Between 3 English Language Teacher Educators

dc.creator	Ayşegül Amanda Yeşilbursa
dc.date	2011-04-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:05:25Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:05:25Z
dc.identifier	1305-578X
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/fe21271757ce4cd0a03612522c3ab7ea
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/9742
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/fe21271757ce4cd0a03612522c3ab7ea
dc.description	Over the past two decades, there has been much research into the discourse of post-observation conferences in the supervision of teachers in both mainstream education and the teaching of English as a Foreign Language. However, the discourse of post-observation conferences in peer observation of teaching has received little attention. The purpose of this study is to investigate the way in which suggestions and advice are mitigated in such discourse. 21 audio-recorded and transcribed post-observation conferences held between 3 dyads of English Language teacher trainers as part of a larger action research project were analysed. It was found that both the observing and the observed teachers made suggestions and gave advice. The participants also made frequent use of negative politeness strategies, and less so positive politeness strategies, when offering suggestions and advice to their colleagues. The findings show that while collaborative in nature, post-observation conferences in peer observation of teaching can construe a threat to the face of the participants, even when power relations are levelled.
dc.language	English
dc.language	Turkish
dc.publisher	Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies
dc.relation	http://www.jlls.org/Issues/Volume%207/No.1/18-35.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1305-578X
dc.source	Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 18-35 (2011)
dc.subject	English Language Teaching
dc.subject	Peer observation of teaching
dc.subject	Post-observation conferences
dc.subject	Suggestions
dc.subject	Advice
dc.subject	Mitigation
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Mitigation of Suggestions and Advice in Post-Observation Conferences Between 3 English Language Teacher Educators
dc.type	Article