Classroom Discourse for Positioning Research

Abstract

This chapter focuses on positioning in language classroom discourse. The chapter begins with an explanation regarding the importance of analyzing classroom discourse. It then further explains how positioning theory can help to understand the complexity associated with classroom participation and talk. The chapter describes, step by step, how a classroom-based study can be designed using positioning theory. It concludes with examples from two different classrooms in order to demonstrate how positioning analysis of classroom discourse can be conducted.