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This chapter focuses on critical moments in teaching and explores how teachers make their interactive decisions (Tsui, Understanding expertise in teaching. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003) by carefully scrutinizing classroom interaction. Because of the significance of teachers’ interactive decisions, this chapter explicates what knowledge is activated and how teachers use it in making decisions about their day-to-day and moment-to-moment activities. Based on Li (Social interaction and teacher cognition. Edinburgh University Press, 2017a), this chapter discusses possible explanations for teachers to make interactive decisions, including (1) unexpected or dispreferred contribution from students; (2) task difficulty level; (3) claim of insufficient knowledge; and (4) emerging learning opportunities.
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Li, L. (2020). Teacher Cognition and Interactive Decision-Making. In: Language Teacher Cognition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51134-8_5
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