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Monitoring teaching acts 295 were highly motivated to learn. A transcript of the classroom inter-
action is given below.
Classroom Interactional Data
Read the following classroom transcript, given here as Episode 13.1. The transcription convention is the same as the one I have used in this book.
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Episode 13.1
How many of you live in an apartment? How many of you live in an apartment?
(Raises hand)
OK, only one? How many of you live in a house? (Raise hands)
OK, any other place?
Condo.
A condo? (Laughs). We have an apartment, a house . . . Condo?
A condo. It’s like a house. Any other place?
Mobile home.
Mobile home, OK.
Under the bridge. (Ss laugh)
Oh, under the bridge! We’ve got some under the bridge. We’ve got four locations. Under the bridge, the mobile home, the apartment, and the house.
Condo.
Oh, yah, condo, that makes it five.
What’s a condo?
Apartment complex. Like an apartment house. Apartment house?
In the car (laughs).
I feel like I live there too sometimes. Carrying everything around, um . . . in this class, one of the things we’ll be talk- ing about is neighborhoods, and what to look for when