O gênero entrevista oral: subsídio para o ensino de língua inglesa Campos, A.; Cristovão, V. Integrated Skills III 2011/1

Introduction PCN (1998) – genres in language teaching Interview: oral genre (most studies are about written genres) Corpus: 10 interviews ABC Television (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Al Gore, John Butler (musician), Kevin Spacey, Jane Goodall among others.

Interview structure Opening Questioning Closing

Objective Entertainment Information Raise awareness (ecology, drugs)

Temporal organizers Past simple: most frequent “I drew a duck. It appeared. You see, I was stuck. I couldn´t go on....” Present simple (current) “I think a lot of it has to do with the ambition to do well, to be the kind of actor that you want to be. It´s very competitive and difficult to start off in.” Present simple (historical present) “So I wake up one day under Grand Central and I don´t have any money, I don´t have any energy and really want to, of course, get high, but....”

Linguistic units related to the act of production Pronouns I We You Sentences declarative Interrogative

Narratives High verbal density Low noun/adjective density

Only narratives? No Interviews also carry Arguments Explanations Dialogue (the reproduction of a previous dialogue the interviewee had) D’escription

Textual organizers Temporal When For two hours Logical connectos But And So Anaphora Pronoun Repetition of a noun Substitution of a noun

Pragmatic coherence Interviewee Acts as a character of a story, of a social group, of an author Modality Logical: facts, truth (Higher) Deontic Epistemic

Oral features Connected speech Assimilation (changing of a final phoneme due to their neighbor phonemes) Ho(t) potato No(t) quite Inclusion They /j/ are here. Linking Get on Not at all Elision Las(t) week Mos(t) people

What we can analyze so as to teach and learn how to take part in a interview Linguistic elements Verb tenses Simple past, present simple (current and historical), present perfect Temporal organizers Personal pronouns Types of sentences Discourse elements Narrative sequence Dialogue sequence Explanation Anaphoric chain

What we can analyze so as to teach and learn how to take part in a interview Oral aspects Assimilation Inclusion Linking Elision