TY - JOUR ID - 3924 TI - Built-In Learner Participation Potential of Locally- and Globally-Designed ELT Materials JO - Teaching English as a Second Language Quarterly (Formerly Journal of Teaching Language Skills) JA - TESL LA - en SN - AU - Pourhaji, Mostafa AU - Alavi, Seyed Mohammad AU - Karimpour, Sedigheh AD - University of Tehran Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 35 IS - 3 SP - 119 EP - 156 KW - conversation analysis KW - interactional contexts KW - learner participation KW - materials evaluation KW - Sociocultural theory DO - 10.22099/jtls.2016.3924 N2 - This study aims at empirically measuring a universal criterion for materials evaluation, i.e., learning opportunities, in a locally- and a globally-designed materials. Adopting the conceptual framework of sociocultural theory and its conceptualization of learning as participation (Donato, 2000), the researchers utilized the methodological power of conversation analysis to examine how opportunities for learner participation and, by extension, learning are created whilst the materials are being used. Thirty teachers’ naturally-occurring classroom interactions, evolving from the two types of materials, was videotaped and transcribed line-by-line to identify the interactional contexts in which learner participation opportunities are embedded. Four interactional contexts affording different levels of learner interactional space were prompted by both types of materials. Examining the distribution of contexts revealed that management-oriented and form-oriented contexts were sustained significantly longer in classes with the locally-designed material. The globally-designed material, however, tended to unfold significantly longer skill-oriented and meaning-oriented contexts suggesting higher levels of built-in learner participation potential. The findings of this study raise materials developers’ awareness, especially in periphery communities, about how materials can either marginalize or empower learners in classroom interaction. UR - https://tesl.shirazu.ac.ir/article_3924.html L1 - https://tesl.shirazu.ac.ir/article_3924_b3fa45f14017563eeca9b2a4591148a4.pdf ER -