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Contribution to Book
Building Socio-environmental Infrastructures for Learning
Conversation Analytic Research on Learning-in-Action The Complex Ecology of Second Language Interaction ‘in the wild’
  • John Hellermann, Portland State University
  • Steven L. Thorne, Portland State University
  • Jamalieh Haley, American University of Iraq - Suliamani
ISBN
9783030221652
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Disciplines
Abstract

Language use, second-language development, and technology mediated human activity are complex processes situated in, and in some cases demonstrably interwoven with, specific material and social contexts. This study highlights the context embedded and context producing interactional practices of learning in the wild as participants in small groups notice visible aspects of their immediate environment. The groups are involved in mobile augmented reality (AR) game play and are walking across an urban university campus and adjacent environments. Video-recorded interactions from 15 groups of three participants from four languages (English, German, Hungarian, and Japanese) were observed and transcribed. Sequential, multimodal analysis revealed numerous instances of noticing environmental resources and we show how participants use coordinated gaze, gesture, and language to make relevant particular perceived objects from the built environment for accomplishing the groups’ goal-directed activity as well as for co-constructing socio-environmental infrastructures for learning.

Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/34058
Citation Information
Hellermann, J., Thorne, S. L., & Haley, J. (2019). Building socio-environmental infrastructures for learning in the wild. In J. Hellermann, S. Eskildsen, S. Pekarek-Doehler, & A. Piirainen-Marsh (Eds.), Conversation analytic research on learning-in-action: The complex ecology of second language interaction ‘in the wild’. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.