Conversation Analysis of Primary School Teachers’ Speech in Education (Amouzesh) TV Channel؛ A Study of Self-Repair Operations Based on Fox & Jasperson’s Classification

Speech repair is one of the most important tools for successful conversation and communication, which can occur due to different reasons such as misunderstanding the speaker’s words or hearing/speaking problems. Among the types of repair operations, self-initiated self-repair has the highest frequency. Due to the importance of proper communication between teachers and students in classes, especially virtual classes, the present research is a conversation analysis through the study of types of self-initiated self-repair operations in the speech of teachers’ live teaching for primary school students in the Iranian Education (Amouzesh) TV Channel based on the seven-fold classification of Fox& Jasperson (1995). The analysis of 703 minutes of the educational content showed that among 258 cases of repair, the type “abandon structure, start new structure” had the highest frequency (31%) and “recycle word” had the lowest frequency (2%). The results indicate that most of the repairs correspond to a restructuring of the grammatical form of the sentences. Also, a comparison between the first and the second primary school programs showed that there is not a significant correlation between the educational level of the audience and the frequency of the repairs applied by the teacher.