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Yang, Tzu-hsuan – Working Papers in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2018
Media discourse has been attracting numerous conversation analysts' attention within the past one or two decades (e.g., Clayman & Heritage, 2002; Hutchby, 2006). TV talk shows, as a "semi-institutional" context which contains coexisting features of both daily conversation and institutional language (Ilie, 2001), has particularly…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Television, Programming (Broadcast), Interaction Process Analysis
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Hellermann, John; Thorne, Steven L. – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Drawing on usage-based approaches to the study of language learning--including recent research on mobility in interaction, embodied approaches to cognition and communicative action, and innovations in place-based language learning in the wild--this article uses methods from ethnomethodological conversation analysis to investigate video recordings…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Usage, Schemata (Cognition), English (Second Language)
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Díez-Palomar, Javier; Olivé, Joan Cabré – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2015
This article explores the types of interactions that take place within "Interactive Groups" when individuals come to a meaningful understanding of mathematics. We discuss the possibility for dialogic talk to unveil the process of learning, and we explore the role that tutors may play in making this process happen. We postulate that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis, Teaching Methods
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Lin, Mei; Preston, Anne; Kharrufa, Ahmed; Kong, Zhuoran – Research-publishing.net, 2014
Interactional communicative competence and higher-order thinking have been well documented as two of the biggest challenges for second/foreign language learners (EFL learners). This paper evaluates the use of digital tabletops as tools for problem-solving tasks in groups. The evaluation is based on a preliminary study of an application of the use…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Thinking Skills, English (Second Language), Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Moussay, Sylvie; Flavier, Eric; Zimmermann, Philipe; Meard, Jacques – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
This case study analysed the circumstances during a one-year work placement in which a pre-service teacher showed professional development, with a focus on the impact of her interactions with various interlocutors. The study was conducted within the framework of the cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) and of activity theory with its methods…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teaching Methods, Mentors, Classroom Techniques
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Rindstedt, Camilla; Aronsson, Karin – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2012
This study analyzes informal learning, drawing on video recordings of staff-child interaction in a pediatric unit. It is shown that even very young patients engage in intent community participation, carefully noting fine variations in examination and treatment practices. They orient to everyday routines in successively more complex ways, gradually…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Patients, Communities of Practice, Informal Education