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Aided-speaking students' unsolicited questions in teacher-fronted classroom talk: the use of speech-generating devices to ask questions
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Speech-Language Pathology. School of Education, Culture and Communication, Division of Special Needs Education, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6410-1332
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Education.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4769-4479
2024 (English)In: Classroom Discourse, ISSN 1946-3014, E-ISSN 1946-3022Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

Using the framework of conversation analysis, this paper examines aided-speaking students’ unsolicited speech-generating device(SGD)-mediated questions in teacher-fronted classroom talk. The analysis draws on a corpus of 18 h of video-recorded classroom interactions including 23 aided-speaking students using SGDs or picture-based communication boards. In all, 5% of the students’contributions were unsolicited questions, produced by three students.The students were found to orient to turn transition relevance places, but due to prolonged production time their questions risked sequential and topical misplacement in the ongoing classroomtalk and were vulnerable to misunderstandings. To address this problem, students activated the synthetic voice before finalising the question, claiming the interactional floor while securingtime to complete their utterance. They also refrained from activating the synthetic voice and instead made the question visually available for the teacher to read, thereby transferring the responsibilityfor answering the question to the teacher when sequentially and topically relevant. The study demonstrates the complex interactional process of formulating SGD-mediated questions, sometimes requiring that the teacher, assistants, and students engage in repair work and scaffolding to establish the meaning of a student’s utterance. The findings imply that the treatment of non-speaking students’ contributions as questions requires designated teacher work.

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Routledge, 2024.
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Unsolicited questions, teacher-fronted classroom talk, conversation analysis, speech-generating devide, speech and language difficulties
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General Language Studies and Linguistics Pedagogy
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Education; Linguistics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-536304DOI: 10.1080/19463014.2024.2322597ISI: 001187047000001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-536304DiVA, id: diva2:1889476
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Teachers’ enhanced ability to include non-speaking students in multi-party classroom interaction with focus on knowledge generation, Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare
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Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2021-01240Norrbacka-Eugenia Foundation, 849/21Available from: 2024-08-15 Created: 2024-08-15 Last updated: 2024-08-21Bibliographically approved

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