Orientation to language code and actions in group work
Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: This conversation analytic study reveals how learners themselves, as speakers and listeners, demonstrate their own orientation to language code and actions on a moment by moment basis during collaborative tasks in English as a foreign language classrooms. The excerpts presented in this article were drawn from 26 hours of audio- and video-recorded small group discussions by Japanese university students. The analysis of the data revealed the following three aspects of participants’ orientations: (a) speakers’ orientation to both language code and actions within a single strip of talk, (b) differential orientations between speakers and listeners, and (c) the lack of a clear distinction and irrelevance (for the participants) of the boundary between participants’ orientations to language code and actions. The findings of this study implicate the relationship between the level of participants’ language proficiency and the occurrence of other-assistance on language code.
Authors: David Aline, Yuri Hosoda
Institution: Kanagawa University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1511811700