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WP68 Beyond 'safe-talk': Institutionalization and agency in China's English language education
Pérez-Milans
2011
This paper will discuss some of the pitfalls of the notion of ?safe-talk? (Chick 1996), a fruitful analytical concept that has been widely used in classroom discourse studies to link chorus-like repetition sequences with certain institutional and …
Key words: Chinese education, classroom interaction, English language education, institutionalization, modernization, safe-talk, social agency, sociolinguistic ethnography