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“Can do!” Teacher Promotion of Optimism in Response to Student Failure Expectation Expressions in Classroom Discourse

Tanja Vehkakoski

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assessmentDiscourse analysismedia_common.quotation_subjectTeaching methodluokkatyöskentelySpecial educationEducationPromotion (rank)Resource (project management)OptimismComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATIONMathematics education0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesfailure expectationkannustusopettaja-oppilassuhdemedia_commonkeskustelunanalyysi05 social sciences050301 educationConversation analysisteacher optimismclassroom interactionObservational studyPsychology0503 education050104 developmental & child psychology

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This study offers detailed observational analyses of how teachers use optimism as an instructional resource when responding to students’ failure expectation displays in classroom situations. The results were based on video-recordings of 25 lessons in two Finnish part-time special education settings, analysed by means of applied conversation analysis. The results showed that the teachers boosted optimism by inverting students’ negative utterances, giving examples of successful experiences of peers, offering praise for students’ earlier performance or focusing on problems through instructional support. The study underlines the importance of addressing and elaborating students’ negative learning-related self-assessments in classroom interactions. peerReviewed

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2019-02-07Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research
https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2019.1570547