Analysing Discourses in Teacher Observation Feedback Conferences

<p>This volume focuses on the post-observation feedback conference a common feature of teacher education programs and highlights the importance of such talk in the development and evaluation of teachers and other professionals. </p><p>The book adopts a linguistic ethnographic approach which provides a framework for examining the contextual nature of the talk and how it is embedded within wider social contexts and structures such as evaluation regimes. Drawing on data from a range of settings including pre-service teacher education medical education and teacher appraisal programs Copland and Donaghue examine the feedback conference from a range of perspectives including face identity and genre and show how a nuanced understanding of discussions can support teacher trainers supervisors and observers to provide appropriate and useful feedback. A concluding chapter brings together brief vignettes from researchers active in the field to point to future directions for further study.</p><p>This book will be of particular interest to students and researchers in discourse analysis language education linguistic anthropology and professional communication as well as pre- and in-service teachers.</p>