ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the ways that students in the three school types were socialized to perform schooled knowledge for their teachers (and for a grade). The interactions analyzed here include oral exams, or interrogazioni, in the classical lyceum and in the technical institute, as well as laboratory sessions in the vocational school. The structure of the evaluations varies according to the subject matter, the degree of student-teacher back-and-forth, and the form(s) of expertise expected to be displayed by the students and measured by the teachers. The main student participants in these speech events demonstrate varying degrees of competence in managing their displays of expertise, and the role of the peripheral participants also varies from class to class. The chapter concludes with a discussion of academic discourse socialization and communicative competence in each of these test situations.
