A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
The Body and Practiced Language Policies in EMI and CLIL Classrooms
Authors: Jakonen, Teppo; Duran, Derya
Editors: Florence Bonacina-Pugh
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication year: 2024
Book title : Language Policy as Practice: Advancing the Empirical Turn in Language Policy Research
First page : 139
Last page: 167
ISBN: 978-3-031-55782-8
eISBN: 978-3-031-55783-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55783-5_7
Web address : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55783-5_7
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/477820090
This chapter provides a multimodal account of how language choice is managed in bilingual classrooms. Drawing on EMI and CLIL classroom recordings in Turkey and Finland, respectively, this Conversation Analytic (CA) study explores how participants observably orient to the teacher’s gestures, facial expressions, and movement in the classroom space as they negotiate the medium of classroom interaction. Earlier research on practiced language policies has tended to focus the analysis on talk, but this chapter demonstrates how the human body can also offer important resources for constructing, calibrating, and making sense of a language policy interactively. Findings contribute to a growing body of research on language choice practices in bilingual classrooms, in particular, and on Conversation Analytic research on classroom interaction in general.