The Study of Third Turns in EFL Writing Tutorial

Abstract

This study investigates the contingencies of the third turns produced by nonnative tutors in the college English writing tutoring data, within the framework of Conversation Analysis(CA). Based on a previous study(Lee 2007), which investigated the contingencies in the third turns of native teachers in ESL classroom discourse, the current study focuses on the contingent production of third turns of NNS tutors in the EFL writing center tutorial sessions and categorizes the different fuctions of the tutors' third turns following the second turn responses of the tutees in the interactional sequences between nonnative tutors and nonnative tutees on the EFL writing tutorial data.