In the classroom, context can range from the talk within a lesson, to students and teachers’ talk. Based on him, Discourse analysis in the classroom becomes critical classroom discourse analysis.
So, Classroom Discourse Analysis could be
paraphrased as “looking at language
-in-use in a classroom context (with the understanding that this context is influenced also by multiple social contexts beyond and within the classroom) to understand how context and talk are influencing each other for the purpose of improving future classroom interactions and positively
affecting social outcomes in contexts beyond the classroom.