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Table 7 Teacher talk that brings student awareness to language and grammatical elements

From: Supporting new arrival students’ engagement with picture books: analysis of teacher talk using the appraisal theory

Interactant

Message

Transcript

T

256

What did the question ask about the Moon?

 

257

Are there

SS

258

Are there mountains on the Moon?

T

259

How do we know that’s a question S4?

T

263

The way the words are written gives us a clue

 

264

It says Are there

 

265

So that’s a good way to begin a question are there or is there

 

266

What else that you can think of that shows it’s a question?

S

267

Moon

T

268

Something about the punctuation

S10

269

Question…

T

270

The question… ((mark))

SS

271

((mark))

T

272

When we ask a question and we’re writing it down,

 

273

we use that special question mark that goes at the…

 

274

Where does it go?

S

275

The end of the…

T

276

The end of the question

 

277

Some of the words will help us know it’s a question

 

278

because of how they begin Are there