Pre-service teachers’ hinting practices in managing responses in a microteaching context

Abstract

Microteaching is a pedagogical approach that allows educators to enhance their teaching techniques through practice and feedback in controlled, classroom-like environments. This study uses multimodal conversation analysis to investigate how pre-service teachers at a Korean university, with English as their second language, manage student participation in microteaching sessions. The analysis reveals the intricacies of teachers’ hinting practices that are aimed at mobilizing and pursuing student responses. The excerpts exemplify how pre-service teachers use hints to foster an engaged and dynamic classroom environment, highlighting their contingent decision-making in question-and-answer sequences. These findings offer valuable insights into the teaching practices employed by pre-service teachers in a microteaching context and contribute to expanding our understanding of classroom interactional competence in teacher education.