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- aus der Wieschen, Maria Vanessa, et al.
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Divergent language choices and maintenance of intersubjectivity : the case of Danish EFL young learners
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. - : Routledge. - 1367-0050 .- 1747-7522. ; 24:1, s. 107-123
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The role of students’ first language(s) in foreign language classrooms has been hotly debated in the last decades. Although this line of research has advanced our understanding of language choice in the L2 classroom, it has mostly dealt with adolescent and adult learners. From a contextual perspective, then, more micro-analytic research that focuses on language choice at the primary school level is needed. Against this background, this paper presents a case study of a Danish third-grade English as a foreign language classroom, in which a pattern of divergent language choices has been observed: the teacher consistently uses English, whereas the learners almost exclusively speak Danish, which might entail trouble in maintaining intersubjectivity and a joint pedagogical focus. Using Conversation Analysis methodology, we found two sequential formats that help ensure student understanding and thus maintain intersubjectivity: (1) learner translations and reformulations for peer support in expansion sequences, and (2) expansions initiated by students requesting information or clarification that display partial or no understanding. We argue that the sense-making practices co-constructed in this classroom context are possible because the teacher encourages shared multilingual meaning-making practices. This research has implications for teaching EFL to young learners, and classroom language policies.
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- Sert, Olcay, PhD, 1981-
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Creating opportunities for L2 learning in a prediction activity
- 2017
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Ingår i: System (Linköping). - : Elsevier BV. - 0346-251X .- 1879-3282. ; 70, s. 14-25
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In addressing teacher talk and its role in providing opportunities for learning in L2 classrooms, a growing number of studies have investigated different ways teachers manage learner initiatives and demonstrate L2 Classroom Interactional Competence. However, despite their commonness in L2 classrooms, an investigation into pre-listening/watching activities (e.g. prediction activities) is scarce in terms of how learning opportunities are created. Based on a corpus of fourteen 45-min EFL classes videotaped at a secondary school in Turkey, the current paper explores the ways student engagement is enhanced and learning opportunities are enacted in pre-watching activities in meaning and fluency contexts. Drawing on the analyses of detailed transcriptions of such activities and utilizing the micro-analytic lens of multimodal conversation analysis, it is revealed that the teacher creates opportunities for language learning by successfully managing learner initiatives and emergent knowledge gaps; evidenced through the appropriate use of resources like embedded correction, embodied repair, and embodied explanations. Evidence for potential language learning will be shown by tracking students’ use of a phrase in meaningful communicative events. The findings have implications for research on L2 classroom interaction, teacher talk, and instructed language learning.
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- Sert, Olcay, PhD, 1981-
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Discursive Timeline Analysis : In search of methodological rigor in investigating interactional and professional development in a digital world
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Tracking interactional phenomena over a long period of time to document change of discursive practices has been a methodological challenge for applied linguists. Researchers who have explored language learning (e.g. Pekarek Doehler 2018) and professional development (e.g. Nguyen 2018) over time have fuelled the birth of a new methodology called longitudinal conversation analysis (Deppermann & Pekarek Doehler 2021). Yet, conversation analysts shied away from integrating interviews and other discursive data into investigations of interactional and professional development, due to methodological and epistemological concerns. Closing the doors to alternative perspectives can, however, become a barrier to innovation, especially when we consider that discursive events are complex and go beyond locally-situated performances of professionals (e.g. teaching in classrooms). Driven by the need to understand the complex discursive dynamics of professional development in settings where digital tools assist knowledge co-construction, this presentation will propose a novice methodological approach, Discursive Timeline Analysis (DTA), which draws on complementary tools of multimodal conversation analysis (e.g. Mondada 2018) and interactional ethnography (Green et al. 2020). DTA tracks behavioural change over time through a systematic analysis of discursive practices (e.g. classroom interactions, collegial dialogues, reflective text and talk). In this presentation, I will illustrate how I navigated the limitations of MCA and IE when they are used in isolation. The study draws upon video recordings of classrooms in upper secondary classrooms in Sweden, performance analytics from a video-tagging app, interviews with teachers and mentors, stimulated recall data, and written reflections of student teachers. I will explicate the processes and decisions involved in the analyses of teachers’ change of classroom interactional practices over time when they use digital tools for reflection and feedback. Methodological shortcomings and potentials will be discussed, and implications for using this method in other areas of applied linguistics will be given. Keywords: longitudinal research; conversation analysis; interactional ethnography; professional development; digital tools; reflective practice ReferencesDeppermann, A., & Pekarek Doehler, S. (2021). Longitudinal conversation analysis-introduction to the special issue. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 54(2), 127-141. Green, J.L., Baker, W.D., Chian, M.M., Vanderhoof, C., Hooper, L., Kelly, G.J., Skukauskaite, A., & Kalainoff, M.Z. (2020). Studying the over-time construction of knowledge in educational settings: A microethnographic discourse analysis approach. Review of Research in Education, 4, 161–194. Mondada, L. (2018). Multiple temporalities of language and body in interaction: Challenges for transcribing multimodality, Research on Language and Social Interaction, 51(1), 85-106. Pekarek Doehler, S. (2018). Elaborations on L2 interactional competence: The development of L2 grammar-for-interaction. Classroom Discourse, 9(1), 3-24.thi Nguyen, H. (2018). A Longitudinal Perspective on Turn Design: From Role-Plays to Workplace Patient Consultations. In: Pekarek Doehler, S., Wagner, J., González-Martínez, E. (eds) Longitudinal Studies on the Organization of Social Interaction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57007-9_7
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- Duran, Derya, et al.
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Preference organization in English as a Medium of Instruction classrooms in a Turkish higher education setting
- 2019
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Ingår i: Linguistics and Education. - : Elsevier Ltd. - 0898-5898 .- 1873-1864. ; 49, s. 72-85
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Previous conversation analytic research has documented various aspects of preference organization and the ways dispreference is displayed in relation to pedagogical focus in L2 and CLIL classrooms (Seedhouse, 1997; Hellermann, 2009; Kääntä, 2010). This study explores preference organization in an under-researched context, an English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) setting, and it specifically focuses on how a teacher displays dispreference for preceding learner turns. The data consist of 30 h of video recordings from two EMI classes, which were recorded for an academic term at a university in Turkey. Using Conversation Analysis, we demonstrate that the teacher employs a variety of interactional resources such as changing body position, gaze movements, hedging, and delaying devices to show dispreference for preceding student answers. Based on our empirical analysis, the ways the teacher prioritizes content and task over form/language are illustrated. The analyses also reveal that negotiation of meaning at content level and production of complex L2 structures can simultaneously be enabled through teachers’ specific turn designs in EMI classroom interaction. This demonstrates that preference organization, particularly in a teacher's responsive turns, can act as a catalyst for complex L2 production and enhance student participation. This study has implications for conversation analytic research on instructed learning settings, and in particular on teachers’ turn design in classroom interaction.
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- Jakonen, Teppo, et al.
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Achieving Joint Attention and Understanding of Task Responsibilities in Synchronous Hybrid L2 Classroom Group Work
- 2024
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Ingår i: Applied Linguistics. - 0142-6001 .- 1477-450X.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article addresses the need to better understand interactional asymmetries, challenges, and solutions in implementing synchronous hybrid language teaching. We investigate video-recorded peer interactions in a higher education language teaching context in which a student uses a telepresence robot, a remotely moveable videoconferencing tool, to participate in small-group task work in L2 English together with students who are physically located in the language classroom. Drawing on multimodal conversation analysis, we examine how the geographically dispersed peer group achieves, maintains, and repairs their joint attention on task-relevant learning materials as they are accomplishing a task, and how this kind of referential interactional work enables their co-operation as a group. Based on the analysis, we argue that in synchronous hybrid learning there is a need to reflexively adjust interactional practices to secure an intersubjective understanding of learning tasks and their progressivity. The findings also suggest that sensory and interactional asymmetries should be taken into account when developing and implementing synchronous hybrid learning environments that aim at equality of opportunities regardless of the participation mode.
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- Markee, Numa, et al.
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Introduction : CA-SLA and the Diffusion of Innovations
- 2021
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Ingår i: Classroom-based Conversation Analytic Research. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030521929 - 9783030521950 ; , s. 1-18
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Conversation Analysis (CA) is the theoretical and methodological framework that inspires the contributions to this edited volume. CA is an approach and methodology in the social sciences that is rooted in ethnomethodology (EM) and aims to describe, analyze, and understand interaction as “a basic and constitutive feature of human social life”. This volume uses ethnomethodological conversation analysis (EMCA) to: (1) develop a unified, emic (or participant-relevant) account of how members do classroom interaction in various contexts; and (2) explore how second language acquisition (SLA) research that uses CA methods (CA-SLA) can potentially be used to develop new, empirically grounded pedagogical implications by and for a broad range of language teaching professionals. Most importantly, the present volume seeks to break new ground by trying to promote an ongoing exchange of ideas among the many different stakeholders in the community of language learning/teaching professionals who constitute our intended audience. It is also proposed that future interventionist CA-based research on classroom interaction would be enriched by the adoption of an ethnographic diffusion of innovations perspective on educational change; specifically, it is argued that all stakeholders need to develop a consumers’ understanding of how to package insights from CA as useful resources for on-going curricular innovation.
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- Sert, Olcay, PhD, 1981-, et al.
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A Qualitative Study on CALL Knowledge and Materials Design : Insights From Pre-Service EFL Teachers
- 2017
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Ingår i: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING. - : IGI GLOBAL. - 2155-7098. ; 7:3, s. 73-87
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The present study investigates how academic coursework and formal learning of instructional technology and materials design help pre-service English language teachers' development of critical knowledge of CALL materials. The participants are 111 pre-service English language teachers enrolled in a TEFL programme at a Turkish University. Throughout a 14-week semester, these participants learn to design a variety of CALL materials including online teaching tools and a set of Web 2.0 tools. The article explores the skills and knowledge of pre-service teachers on the design and development of audio-visual web-based activities, through qualitative content analysis of their written reflections. The analyses of reflections on practice have revealed that these teachers demonstrate strong and critical understanding of CALL in enriching authenticity, enhancing motivation, facilitating language learning, and providing multimodal resources. They also display great awareness of instructional knowledge, in particular, in the design and interface of technology to facilitate learning.
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- Sert, Olcay, PhD, 1981-, et al.
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Learning Potentials Afforded by a Film in Task-Based Language Classroom Interactions
- 2021
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Ingår i: The Modern language journal. - : Blackwell Publishing Inc.. - 0026-7902 .- 1540-4781. ; 105, s. 126-141
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The use of films as teaching and learning materials can provide a variety of opportunities for interaction in second language classrooms. Research on the usage of films in language-learning tasks to provide opportunities for learning and interaction, however, is scarce. Drawing on a database of video-recorded interactions in an upper-secondary English-as-a-foreign-language classroom in Sweden and using multimodal conversation analysis, this study examines affordances of student interactions during a film-based discussion task. Taking a sociomaterial perspective, we focus on students’ co-narrations of the film in a group task and show how the emergent discussions about the film facilitate collaborative attention work (CAW). Our findings reveal that the CAW in this film-based discussion task unfolds when students (a) correct each other, or (b) collaboratively search for words while discussing the scenes in the film. Our analysis of these sequences reveals the learning potentials that emerge in film-based discussions. The findings have direct implications for the use of audio-visual materials—in particular, films and movies—in language-learning tasks.
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