Data session 24 Apr 2015

Matt Burdelski of Osaka University shared some recordings of classroom talk at our data session on April 24, 2015. The videos featured children in a Japanese medium classroom in the US, and our focus was particularly on repair sequences in which the teacher ignored some repair initiations from the students in order to progress her own line of talk. It was interesting also to look at ways the bilingual children used both their languages while the teacher largely relied on Japanese alone.