Title of article :
AComparativeInvestigationoftheBackchannelingStrategyinEnglishLanguageTextbooksforIranianSchoolStudents
Author/Authors :
Chahooshi ,Mahboobeh DepartmentofEnglishLanguageM.A. - UniversityStudentofTeachingEnglishlanguage - YasujStateUniversity Yasuj , Rezvani, Reza Department of English Language - Yasuj State University, Iran
Abstract :
Thisqualitativestudyisanattempttodevelopourknowl-edgeonusingtheback-channelsinEnglishconversationsasasecondlanguageobtainingEnglishlanguagetextbooksforIranianschoolstu-dentsthroughtheoldandneweducationalsystem.Thetextbookofsecondguidanceschoolgradehasbeencomparedwithseventhjuniorhighschoolgrade(asthefirstgroup),andthetextbookofthirdguid-anceschoolgradehasbeencomparedtoeighthjuniorhighschoolgrade(asthesecondgroup).IthasbeenadiscourseanalysisofthesebooksbasedonMaynard’s(1997)taxonomy.Theresultsofback-channelsfre-quencyhavebeen26and18timesinthefirstgroup,respectively;so,theproportionhasbeen1.44.Also;back-channelingmarkershavebeenappeared40and29timesinthesecondgroup,respectively;thus,theproportionhasbeen1.38.Ithasbeenconcludedthattheback-channelsfrequencyhashadaquantityimprovementinthenewversiontotheoldone
Keywords :
Back-Channelsfrequency , discourseanalysis , Englishcon-versations , Maynard’s(1997)taxonomy , oldandneweducationalsys-tems
Journal title :
Journal of Studies in Learning and Teaching English
