All transcriptions from mathematics classrooms are welcome to be deposited here as long as they are thoroughly anonymised so that no school, teacher or student is identifiable. Details of the transcription style used are described below.

Please include details of the year the lesson was recorded and the age of the students in the interaction in the file name, e.g. CSa16EN13 (where 16 is the year 2016 and 13 is the age of the students, EN indicates that the lesson was recorded in a classroom from England and CS is the pseudonym given to a particular teacher).

Transcription Notation

Whilst many of the transcripts included in the collection were originally transcribed using full Jefferson transcription, many features have been removed to make the data suitable for corpus analyses.

The features that are included are:

Taken from G. Jefferson, Transcription Notation, in J. Atkinson and J. Heritage (eds), Structures of Social Interaction, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

All student names spoken have been changed to SNAME. Likewise all teachers' names have been changed to TNAME and other names are altered to be HNAME, RNAME according to the context.

((Other Interaction))  been used to denote any activity that has not been transcribed, but does cause a gap in the transcriptions.  This might be individuals working on a tasks, small group work, the teacher writing on the board or general chatter that was not audible as whole class interaction.

Turns have been numbered sequentially as they occurred in the lessons and are consistent across the different files attached to the same lesson.

Teacher: denotes the teacher speaking

Student: denotes a student speaking

Students: denotes more than one student speaking (which could be 2 or the whole class)