Generated interaction within the classroom based on the work of Amparo Tusón: conversation analysis

Abstract

This article presents the proposal for the researcher to generate, based on input from Amparo Tuson specifically in his work: Conversation Analysis (1997), a tool to describe the discourse and interaction that are generated within the classroom in a given class. This article is generated in the context of the completion of a doctoral thesis where one of the categories to define the characteristics of speech is used by teachers in the classroom and the interaction as a result of that is generated with the student teaching Contemporary History of Venezuela. For the description of the interaction is used as the analysis of oral discourse and used categories defined by Tuson (1998). The categories used are: turn-taking, organization of interaction, interaction style. Attached to the article, the instrument designed by the researcher who starts to carry out his thesis the qualitative paradigm and the socio-critical method.