Harnessing Storytelling as a Sociopragmatic Skill: Applying Narrative Research to Workplace English Courses

Autor/inn/en	Holmes, Janet; Marra, Meredith
Titel	Harnessing Storytelling as a Sociopragmatic Skill: Applying Narrative Research to Workplace English Courses
Quelle	In: TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 45 (2011) 3, S.510-534 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0039-8322
Schlagwörter	Migrants; Story Telling; Personal Narratives; Workshops; Skilled Workers; English (Second Language); Internship Programs; Work Environment; Business Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Interaction; Student Empowerment; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Foreign Countries; Self Concept; Professional Identity; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Migrantin; Erlebniserzählung; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Facharbeiter; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Berufspraktische Ausbildung; Arbeitsmilieu; Unternehmenskommunikation; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Interaktion; Studienberechtigung; Pragmalinguistik; Soziolinguistik; Ausland; Selbstkonzept; Neuseeland
Abstract	Narratives are often overlooked in workplace talk, but they contribute in crucial ways to relationship building and identity construction in workplace interaction. In this article we analyse narratives told by skilled migrants from non-English-speaking backgrounds during a workplace internship conducted as part of a Workplace Communication course. The analysis adopts a social constructionist stance recognising that narratives are co-constructed between interactants in ongoing interaction. Although earlier TESOL research has made use of narratives as a source of information for designing teaching programmes and for improving specific linguistic features of fluency, this article demonstrates that narratives also provide (ESOL) teachers with an opportunity to empower students in their efforts to negotiate high-stakes environments such as workplace settings. (Contains 11 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10