An approach to analysing teacher verbal moves in hearing children read

Abstract

ABSTRACT A study has been made to investigate the teacher‐child interaction of hearing children read in infant school classrooms. Recordings of 156 interactions from six different teachers have been collected from naturalistic settings. The transcriptions of these recordings have been analysed, and this paper is concerned with the descriptive system of the teacher verbal moves which has been developed. This system indicates three main variety of moves; pedagogical, feedback and asides. The pedagogical moves are sub divided into areas concerned with welfare, directions, providing words, word recognition, phonics and comprehension. The functional nature of the teacher moves is indicated and specific examples of thc moves are provided.