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. 2024 Aug 17;10(16):e36435. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e36435

Table 2.

Classroom discourse transcription conventions.

Notation Meaning
T: Teacher
L: Learner(Not identified)
L1, L2, etc.: Identified learner
LL: Several learners at once or the whole class
Keep silence and look forward to response
(+) Silence or pause for 1 s
(+)(+) Silence or pause for 2 s
(+)(+)(+) Silence or pause for 3 s
(4) Silence; length given in seconds
? Rising intonation-question or other
! Emphatic speech: falling intonation
(hhh) Laughter
((unintelligible)) Identified speech