Temple University Japan:

TUJ Osaka Distinguished Lecturer Series: Classroom Interaction and Language Learner Participation

Date: Saturday, August 13th, 2011 Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Speaker: David Olsher (San Francisco State University)

Description:
This seminar takes a micro-interactional perspective on language classrooms, including teacher-fronted and small group activities. Classroom discourse is approached through the research framework of Conversation Analysis, using recorded and transcribed classroom talk to examine the interactional architecture of social action in the details of turn-taking, turn-construction, and actions carried out through sequences of turns.

For more information, please see the TUJ website.

Nine times a year, the Temple University Distinguished Lecturer Series brings internationally-recognized TESOL scholars to TUJ for intensive weekend seminars. Each seminar can be taken for elective credit for the M.S.Ed. and Ed.D. degrees. The first three hours of each Saturday session are free and open to the public. Weekend seminars are free for M.S.Ed. and Ed.D. alumni of Temple University, Japan Campus; the fee for other weekend auditors is 12,500 yen.

Organization: Temple University Japan

Cost: free for the first 3 hours

Venue: Temple University Japan, Osaka map

Location: Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Contact Temple University Japan

Website: www.tuj.ac.jp/tesol/seminars/