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Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · 1d

A review (by Eunseok Ro) of "Conversation analysis and language teacher education: Intervention studies" (eds. Olcay Sert and Hansun Zhang Waring) is now out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... @sertolcay.bsky.social @lansi2024.bsky.social #intervention #EMCA #classroom #teacher #education

Conversation analysis and language teacher education: Intervention studies

Published in Classroom Discourse (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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MIND (Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics) Research Group @mindresearchgroup.bsky.social · 6d

The 4th MIND mini-symposium will take place at Mälardalen University on November 20, 2025. The theme of our symposium this year is “Beyond the binary of progressive vs. formal: interactional research on learning and teaching on the way to hybrid intelligence”. mindresearchgroup.org/2025/10/02/t...

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MIND (Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics) Research Group @mindresearchgroup.bsky.social · 8d

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MIND (Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics) Research Group @mindresearchgroup.bsky.social · 8d

In our next MIND data session (Thursday, 2 October, 13:15-CET), we will welcome Teppo Jakonen (University of Turku, Finland) with his study:"Interacting in L2 #Finnish with a #virtual patient in an immersive virtual reality nursing #simulation". mindresearchgroup.org/data-sessions/ Wanna attend? 👇

Data Sessions

MIND Data sessions: Autumn 2025 MIND Data sessions: Spring 2025 13 February, 13:15-14:45 Tuğba Özdemir (Hacettepe University) “Learning two senses ‘cold-blooded’” U3-104 (Västerås) also Teams …

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Olcay Sert (織在猿人) @sertolcay.bsky.social · 15d

#openaccess: Collaborative Noticing of #Multimodality in Language #Classroom #Interaction: A Telecollaboration Project Between Student‐Teachers of #English in Sweden and Japan - @sertolcay.bsky.social & @mika-ishino.bsky.social - 2025 - TESOL Journal - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #EMCA

Collaborative Noticing of Multimodality in Language Classroom Interaction: A Telecollaboration Project Between Student‐Teachers of English in Sweden and Japan

Telecollaboration in pre-service teacher education promotes intercultural communicative competence and bridges knowledge and practice. Although a growing body of studies has addressed the affordances...

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Olcay Sert (織在猿人) @sertolcay.bsky.social · 15d

Kajsa Lind (Jensen High School) & I wrote a retrospective analysis of her learning journey after she completed my classroom interaction course & graduated from our teacher education program. We have a video-pod that summarizes our study: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xr6.... The link to the article is 👇

Learning to Respond to Student Utterances During a Classroom Interaction Course in Sweden

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MIND (Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics) Research Group @mindresearchgroup.bsky.social · 15d

Our next MIND data session is on 25 September, 13:15 (CET) Mika Ishino (Doshisha University)&Aya Watanabe (Fukui Prefectural Uni.) will present data from L2 young learners' classrooms. The session takes place in hybrid mode, in U3-083 (Västerås) and on Teams: mindresearchgroup.org/data-sessions/

Data Sessions

MIND Data sessions: Autumn 2025 MIND Data sessions: Spring 2025 13 February, 13:15-14:45 Tuğba Özdemir (Hacettepe University) “Learning two senses ‘cold-blooded’” U3-104 (Västerås) also Teams …

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Olcay Sert (織在猿人) @sertolcay.bsky.social · Aug 15

Our edited volume (w/ Hansun Waring, Teachers College, Columbia University) "Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education: Intervention Studies" is now out! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #CA #EMCA #teachereducation #teaching #interaction #classroom

Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education

This volume brings together studies that document practice-based changes in which conversation analysis plays a role.

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Olcay Sert (織在猿人) @sertolcay.bsky.social · Jul 21

How much time do we have? On Countdown timers in Japanese schools and the first week of my “minigration” to Japan olcaysert.net/2025/07/21/h... #Japan #time #minigration #school #teaching #learning

How much time do we have? On Countdown timers in Japanese schools and the first week of my “minigration” to Japan

Sensei Naoko puts a digital countdown timer on the board. Sets it to 40 seconds. All pupils stand up: it is time to practice, in pairs, the months in English. One of the students says 2月, the other…

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MIND (Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics) Research Group @mindresearchgroup.bsky.social · Jul 11

A new #openaccess article, published in Linguistics and Education, by our researchers @marwaamri.bsky.social & @sertolcay.bsky.social: "Teachers’ responses in student-initiated question sequences during between-desk interactions in #EFL project work" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #CA

Teachers’ responses in student-initiated question sequences during between-desk interactions in EFL project work

A defining feature of project-based English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classrooms is teachers’ routine circulation between desks to answer students’ …

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Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · Jul 10

A new SI of Classroom Discourse is now out!:"Analyzing educational interactions: exploring the methodological breadth" www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcdi20/1.... The issue features qualitative &quantitative studies that showcase methodologies & the use of empirical data to analyse classroom discourse /0👇

Classroom Discourse

Analyzing educational interactions: exploring the methodological breadth. Volume 16, Issue 2 of Classroom Discourse

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Chris Leyland @chrisleylandncl.bsky.social · May 27

SAVE THE DATE: The next Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2) Conference will be held at Newcastle University 24-26 August 2026. Please watch this space for details on plenary speakers, workshops, the call for papers and more! 😃

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Olcay Sert (織在猿人) @sertolcay.bsky.social · Jun 25

Designing for Computational Collaboration: Using a Storyboard Educational Design to Scaffold Collaborative Coding for Childhood Education constructionism.oapublishing.ch/index.php/co...

Designing for Computational Collaboration: Using a Storyboard Educational Design to Scaffold Collaborative Coding for Childhood Education | Constructionism Conference Proceedings

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Olcay Sert (織在猿人) @sertolcay.bsky.social · Jun 1

Our article (w/ Teppo Jakonen & Heidi Jauni ) on joint attention in #hybrid L2 #classroom group work has now been assigned to an issue in Applied Linguistics: academic.oup.com/applij/artic...

Achieving Joint Attention and Understanding of Task Responsibilities in Synchronous Hybrid L2 Classroom Group Work

Abstract. This article addresses the need to better understand interactional asymmetries, challenges, and solutions in implementing synchronous hybrid lang

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Olcay Sert (織在猿人) @sertolcay.bsky.social · May 22

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AI-powered question detection tools like Question Bot (QBot) show promising potential for enhancing teacher reflection and professional development...

AI-powered question detection tools like Question Bot (QBot) show promising potential for enhancing teacher reflection and professional development, with student-teachers reporting it helps them notic...

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Olcay Sert (織在猿人) @sertolcay.bsky.social · May 19

It has been eye opening for me to listen to the perspectives of student-teachers on their use of an AI tool for #reflective #practice: Partnering with #AI in #teacher #education? Using an automatic question detection tool to reflect on #classroom #interaction: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Partnering with AI in teacher education? Using an automatic question detection tool to reflect on classroom interaction

In this paper, I investigate a group of student-teachers’ insights into an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered automatic question-detection tool designed for reflective practice: Question Bot (QBo...

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Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · May 19

New article out! Repairing problems of acceptability in pre-task interaction (by David Shimamoto, Kobe University, Japan) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Repairing problems of acceptability in pre-task interaction

In task-based language teaching methodology, one way to familiarise learners with the upcoming task is through question-and-answer sequences that target task-relevant topics. In such instances, lea...

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MIND (Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics) Research Group @mindresearchgroup.bsky.social · May 11

Hot off the press by our very own Helena Tegler: 'But I don’t know, she might actually ask?' Detecting sources of self-efficacy and conditions fostering collective teacher efficacy by analysing transcribed panel and group discussions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #CARM @lizstokoe.bsky.social

'But I don’t know, she might actually ask?' Detecting sources of self-efficacy and conditions fostering collective teacher efficacy by analysing transcribed panel and group discussions

Asking questions is essential for learning and socialisation. However, students with intellectual disability who have severe speech and language disorder (i.e. aided-speaking students) seldom get t...

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MIND (Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics) Research Group @mindresearchgroup.bsky.social · May 5

MIND research group Data Session-8 May, 13:15-14:45 (CET)
Zeynep Önder (Hacettepe Uni) & Stephen D. Looney (The Pennsylvania State University): Pronunciation Teaching in EFL Classroom Interaction. U3-104 (Västerås) and Teams (contact @mervebozbiyik.bsky.social) mindresearchgroup.org/data-sessions/

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Olcay Sert (織在猿人) @sertolcay.bsky.social · May 2

Getting out of the comfort zone, again? On our AI-Write project, Limerick, and the future of higher education (in Europe) olcaysert.net/2025/05/02/g... #AI #artificial #intelligence #teacher #education #teaching #learning #highereducation #English #language #Limerick @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Getting out of the comfort zone, again? On our AI-Write project, Limerick, and the future of higher education (in Europe)

We are living in the times when at least half of the LinkedIn users1, AI-influencers, or people you barely know are telling you to get out of your comfort zone, before you have had enough time to s…

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MIND (Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics) Research Group @mindresearchgroup.bsky.social · Apr 22

Get in touch with @mervebozbiyik.bsky.social (merve.bozbiyik[at]mdu.se) to participate in our next data session. See you on Thursday at 13:15 (CET)!

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Fiona Farr @fionafarr.bsky.social · Jan 16

Delighted to have this as part of our SI on technology in language teacher education. Two fabulous papers already published in the SI and more on the way. Watch this space! Many thanks to @sertolcay.bsky.social et al. for being part of it.

Olcay Sert (織在猿人) @sertolcay.bsky.social · Jan 15

Our article (w/ E.Wulff-Sahlén & T. Schröter) "Corpus-Based Reflective Practice for Professional Development: A Collaborative Micro Auto-Ethnography" is now out! www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15.... It is part of the SI "Technology and Language Teacher Education" (eds. @fionafarr.bsky.social & E.Riordan).👇

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Olcay Sert (織在猿人) @sertolcay.bsky.social · Apr 7

Our next SOLD webinar at Mälardalen Uni. features Mika Ishino &Junko Takahashi (Doshisha University,Japan) on the 16th of April, 13:15 (CET). They will present their conversation analytic intervention in a teacher education context in Japan. The link is in the comment. You can also scan the QR code.

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LANSI @lansi2024.bsky.social · Apr 3

ALTESOL doctoral seminar in #LanguageUse had a most productive session with @sertolcay.bsky.social from @mindresearchgroup.bsky.social talking in-situ vocabulary explanation, classroom interaction, publication, and collaboration @teacherscollege.bsky.social @iscaupdates.bsky.social #emca

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LANSI @lansi2024.bsky.social · Mar 28

fantastic talk on #CA and #LanguageTeacherEducation by @sertolcay.bsky.social @iscaupdates.bsky.social

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