English Language Teaching in its Social Context

~andRECORDING AND TRANSCRIBING TALK 3351 Bel Right/anything else? / everyone {have a think/right/Jan{everyone have a thinkLouRosa2 BelJanLouRosaabout their important memories /3 ncl I’ve got one (.) /right I rcmember (.)JanLouRosa4 Re1 { Jan AGAIN/JanLouRosaI’ve got this important {memory of school was-/I got5 BelJan {this effort trophy at mid& school (.) /Lou {Jan again/ yeah?/Rosa6 BelJanLouRosaand I-/oh and I were-/and I was dead chuffed/I thought it were great/7 nciJanan cffort trophy?/ it were grcat weren’t it?/Lou I got one of them/ yeah/Rosa8 BelJanLouRosa{it werc great/{at the fourth year of juniors/KCYAs abovc with, in addition:Yeah/ A slash represents the end of a tone group, or chunk of talkYeah?/ A question mark indicates the end of a chunk analyscd as a questionAGAIN Capital lctters indicate a word uttered with emphasisStaves are numbered and separated by horizontal lines; all the talk within a stave is to be read together,sequentially from left to right.Figure 20.5 Transcription of group talk: stavc layoutSource: adapted from Davies (2000): 290Note: Davies follows Coates in representing, within a stave, only those students who arc speaking. Here I hareincluded all students throughout the transcription which illustrates, for instance, that one student, Rosa, doesnot speak at all in this sequence. Rosa may have been contributing in other ways ~ e.g. nonverbally ~ shedoes speak later in the discussion.