Browsing by Author "Huerta Rojas, Wanda Alejandra"

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    Tesis de maestría
    A multimodal interaction analysis of rapport in elementary schools from central Mexico
    (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 2021-09) Huerta Rojas, Wanda Alejandra
    "Rapport is a positive mutual relationship that is marked by affinity and harmony (Nadler, 2007). This paper aims to understand the way teachers from public and private elementary schools establish rapport with their students by exploring which and how gestures, influence the students’ behavior. This is a case study that uses an approach proposed by Norris (2004, 2011, 2016, 2019) named Multimodal Interaction Analysis. This research takes place in Central Mexico and four teachers from private and public schools were observed using a Rapport Observation Sheet that is a modified version of Pianta’s (1999) Teacher-Student Relationship Scale, and recordings were analyzed. Extracts and screenshots were taken from the recordings where the interactions show the establishment of rapport or the lack of it. Results show that the establishment of rapport increases students’ participation and engagement towards the class and their learning process. On the contrary, the lack of rapport establishment causes low class participation, decreases communication between teachers and students, and does not allow an enjoyable classroom atmosphere, neither for teachers nor for students. This project targets to shed some light on the importance of rapport building inside the student-teacher interactions in the primary school classroom".
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    Tesis de licenciatura
    Rapport between students and teachers: A multimodal interaction analysis
    (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, 2018-01) Huerta Rojas, Wanda Alejandra
    "This study focuses on rapport, it aims to understand the way teachers establish it inside their classrooms while utilizing the multimodal discourse analysis. It also examines which multimodal elements teachers use to establish rapport, as well as how effective multimodal interactions on rapport are. The research takes place at a public university in central Mexico, the participants are three teachers of three different nationalities, and they are responsible for language classrooms. The three teachers were studied trough an observation sheet and recordings of their classes, that allowed a confirmation of what was observed as well as deeper analysis. Some extracts of the recordings are presented and analyzed from a multimodal approach. This project intends to shed some light on the importance and the process of building rapport in any place that deals with student-teacher interaction. After finishing the data analysis it was concluded that rapport is indeed an important element inside the classroom, and the quality of the interactions was significantly different from the teacher that tried to establish it from the ones that did not tried as hard. As this study was made in a University it may be interesting to observe this phenomenon in other levels of education."