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

The first review of our book (with Hansun Waring) "Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education - Intervention Studies" is now out! @lansi2024.bsky.social @mika-ishino.bsky.social @ubalaman.bsky.social @mervebozbiyik.bsky.social

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

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Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · 1d

New #openaccess article! “Huh?” “Good!”: teaching conversational repair in introductory #L2 classrooms (by Michiko Kaneyasu, University of California) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Huh?” “Good!”: teaching conversational repair in introductory L2 classrooms

Over the past decade, a growing effort has been made toward the practical application of findings and insights from Conversation Analysis (CA) in second language (L2) teaching, with the goal of bet...

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Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · 1d

New #openaccess article out! Pre-service #teachers´ interaction with students manifested in speech turns– a case study of #interaction and #acoustic analyses (by Kati Järvinen, Anna-Leena Kähkönen, Pasi Nieminen & Terhi Mäntylä - University of Jyväskylä) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pre-service teachers´ interaction with students manifested in speech turns– a case study of interaction and acoustic analyses

In the classroom, teacher-student interaction has a vital role in learning. Interaction is constructed by interpersonal communication consisting of verbal and non-verbal communication. When analysi...

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Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · 1d

New #openaccess article out in Classroom Discourse! Implications of #materials use in a shop encounter #roleplay in #Finnish as an #L2 #classroom #interaction – a comparison of two types of task materials (by Katriina Rantala, University of Oulu, Finland) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Implications of materials use in a shop encounter roleplay in Finnish as an L2 classroom interaction – a comparison of two types of task materials

This study uses multimodal conversation analysis to examine the influence of learning materials on a second language classroom task interaction. The data comes from tasks where beginner-level adult...

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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

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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El Espectro 👻 🎃 @telescoper.bsky.social · 9d

A meme for the modern university...

Meme showing a worker labelled "academic staff" digging a hole in the ground while 10 others look labelled with management titles such as "Director of Human Resources" look on. The caption underneath reads "The only way we can cut costs is to reduce the number of academic staff..."

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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

Sert, O., Lind, K. (2025). Learning to Respond to Student Utterances During a Classroom Interaction Course in a Swedish Higher Education Context. In: Sert, O., Waring, H. Z. (eds) Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education -Intervention Studies (pp. 43-67). Springer doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Learning to Respond to Student Utterances During a Classroom Interaction Course in a Swedish Higher Education Context

In this chapter, we document how a student-teacher developed interactional awareness, knowledge, and competence during a Conversation Analysis (CA)-informed university course on classroom interaction....

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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 20

Prof Thomas S.C. Farrell (Brock University, Canada) will give a talk at Mälardalen University (in person) this Friday (the 22nd of August, 13:15-14:30 CET, Ypsilon, U2-020 in Västerås): “Exploring the Relationship between Reflective Practice and Research/ers”. Join us if you are around!

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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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Dr. Florence Bonacina-Pugh @bonacina-pugh.bsky.social · Aug 11

Find my recently edited book "Language Policy as Practice: Advancing the Empirical Turn in Language Policy Research" with Palgrave here:
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A picture of the front cover of the book "Language Policy as Practice: Advancing the Empirical Turn in Language Policy Research"

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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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Classroom Discourse @classroomdiscourse.bsky.social · Jul 11

New article out in Classroom Discourse!: "Forms of becoming: elementary students’ self-positioning in writing" (by Maryam Khosronejad, Mary Ryan & Lauren Alexandra Weber). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Forms of becoming: elementary students’ self-positioning in writing

This paper investigates 15 elementary aged children’s self-positioning in writing. To this purpose, we examine how children perceive and represent themselves through their engagement with writing r...

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Olcay Sert (織在猿人) @sertolcay.bsky.social · Jul 11

Our new paper based on Marwa Amri's PhD project is now out! Happy and proud to see that Marwa's work on project-based learning and between-desk interactions is making a good impact in the field already. @marwaamri.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #CA #classroom #interaction #Sweden

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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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Adrien Peyrache @apeyrache.bsky.social · Jul 5

The thing about going on vacation with a multinational family… it always feels a bit like a spy movie.

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Olcay Sert (織在猿人) @sertolcay.bsky.social · Jul 5

Looking forward to catching up Tim. ❤️

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Olcay Sert (織在猿人) @sertolcay.bsky.social · Jul 4

Taking a short break from Swedish academia, I will be working at Doshisha University in Japan starting in a few days to pursue and extend our research with Mika Ishino. I feel privileged to have received the prestigious JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) research fellowship.

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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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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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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Jun 13

Early career researchers who narrowly miss out on funding should be encouraged to try again because their work is often cited more than those whose research is funded first time around, a major international study has recommended

#AcademicSky #highered

Help ‘near miss’ researchers reapply for funding, says study

Calls for funders to launch ‘random draws’ and offer mentorship to promising applicants who fail to receive grants

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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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