Bringing Beyond into the L2 Classroom : On Video Ethnography and the 'Wild' In-class Use of Smartphones

• Just as everyday social life increasingly plays out in, around, and surrounded by digital and online technologies, so too does language learning. Learning in the digital wilds has emerged as an important area of study in its own right, yet at the same time, the increasing ubiquity of connected personal mobile devices means that learners bring the wilds with them into the classroom, offering potential for rewilding language learning in the classroom. In this chapter, we review, discuss, and recommend an approach to studying this topic in a participant-centered way, empirically grounded in video ethnography and ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis. Through classroom video recording and screen recording of learners’ personal mobile devices, a wide range of language learning-relevant activities may be observed that permit researchers to explore the contingent and complex ways in which connected devices open up windows to learners’ authentic interests, engagements, and relationships outside of the classroom in ways that enrich the classroom’s affordances for learning from an ecological perspective.

Ämnesord

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

teaching of language; technology and media

Education

Pedagogik

English

Engelska

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