Mika Ishino
Doshisha University
Mika Ishino is an Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Global and Regional Studies at Doshisha University, Japan. She obtained her Ph.D. in Language and Culture from Osaka University. Before obtaining her Ph.D., she also trained as a Conversation Analyst at the Center for Language, Interaction and Culture, University of California Los Angeles, as a Visiting Researcher. Her research interest is applying conversation analysis to the study of foreign language teacher education. Her work has been published in the Journal of Pragmatics, Classroom Discourse, and System, among others.
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Promoting ALTs’ Participation in Team Teaching
This study investigated an interactional practice for promoting assistant language teachers’ (ALTs)’ participation in team teaching lessons with Japanese English teachers (JETs). Using conversation analysis, the researcher conducted a comparative case study on 15 team teaching lessons of two pairs of ALTs and JETs in two public junior high schools. The analysis found that with the ALTs taking over the turns for Evaluation from “Initiation-Response-Evaluation sequences”, it made a significant impact on promoting their participation.