TY - JOUR
T1 - Designedly incomplete utterances
T2 - A pedagogical practice for eliciting knowledge displays in error correction sequences
AU - Koshik, Irene
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - This article uses a conversation analytic framework to analyze a practice used by teachers in 1-on-1, second-language writing conferences when eliciting self-correction of students' written language errors. This type of turn, used to elicit a knowledge display from the student, is not a syntactic question or even a complete turn constructional unit. It is designed to be incomplete; hence the name designedly incomplete utterance (DIU). The teachers use DIUs made up of the students' own words to begin turns that they are prompting the students to complete. Several types of DIU are discussed, showing how their turn design is related to the action they are being used to do. DIUs are then compared to similar practices found in ordinary conversation (i.e., word searches and anticipatory completions), showing how DIUs are adaptations of these practices to accomplish specialized institutional tasks.
AB - This article uses a conversation analytic framework to analyze a practice used by teachers in 1-on-1, second-language writing conferences when eliciting self-correction of students' written language errors. This type of turn, used to elicit a knowledge display from the student, is not a syntactic question or even a complete turn constructional unit. It is designed to be incomplete; hence the name designedly incomplete utterance (DIU). The teachers use DIUs made up of the students' own words to begin turns that they are prompting the students to complete. Several types of DIU are discussed, showing how their turn design is related to the action they are being used to do. DIUs are then compared to similar practices found in ordinary conversation (i.e., word searches and anticipatory completions), showing how DIUs are adaptations of these practices to accomplish specialized institutional tasks.
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U2 - 10.1207/S15327973RLSI3503_2
DO - 10.1207/S15327973RLSI3503_2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0038107346
SN - 0835-1813
VL - 35
SP - 277
EP - 309
JO - Research on Language and Social Interaction
JF - Research on Language and Social Interaction
IS - 3
ER -