Task

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Wednesday - October 29, 2025

[ ] Record you and a partner discussing in English (for 10 minutes) how a teacher’s failure to provide clear instructions to learners is a violation of one or more of Grice’s maxims (p. 291). The recording can be audio only - no video.
[ ] Record you and a partner discussing in English (for 10 minutes) any topic you choose. The recording can be audio only - no video. The partners between the two recordings may be the same or different. Partner work only, please… no trios, etc.
[ ] Rename the audio using the following nomenclature: FirstName1_FirstName2_1 and FirstName1_FirstName2_2. The first recording refers to the conversation related to Grice´s maxims and teachers failing to give clear instructions and the second recording refers to the conversation where the topic is open.
[ ] Upload your audios to Conversational Analysis in Teams (Week 12). Create a subfolder with both of your first names, and then two more subfolders called Audios and Transcriptions.
[ ] Transcribe your audio to text using an app of your choice. Refer to Transcribing audio to text if you have questions about how to convert audio to text.

[ ] Upload transcriptions to your respective subfolders in Conversational Analysis.
Key points taken from Talk and Action (PDF).
Guiding questions
Review the example dialogue and analysis
Complete your analyses by editing your transcriptions in Conversational Analysis.
Submit both your analysis and the analysis of your partner as separate PDFs to the virtual classroom assignment by November 4, 2025. Name each file with the name of the person responsible for completing the analysis.

[ ] Assignment meets the following criteria:
- [ ] Required files submitted to Teams as instructed above.
- [ ] Analysis complete and submitted by due date.
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