Facilitating Participation in Second Language Remote Meetings
Year of publication
2023
Authors
Kotilainen, Lari; Oittinen, Tuire; Kurhila, Salla; Lehtimaja, Inkeri
Abstract
The affordances for organising social conduct in multilingual interaction vary depending on the setting. This article examines multilingual remote meetings and the ways in which second language speakers’ participation in interaction is facilitated by other speakers. More specifically, the focus is on moments of language-related troubles that become solved by entries accomplished by a non-primary recipient (i.e., third party) of the trouble turn. Drawing on screen-recorded data and conversation analysis (CA), we illustrate how second language speakers’ troubles are attended to either retrospectively (i.e., via repair) or prospectively, and how the entries require fine-grained coordination of verbal, embodied and technological resources. The analysis shows facilitation through third-party assistance as a complex process with professional and pedagogical dimensions. Our study provides insight into the ways in which technology-mediated environments may both create opportunities and limit the possibilities for second language speakers to recruit help from others via subtle (e.g., embodied) means.
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Publication format
Article
Parent publication type
Journal
Article type
Original article
Audience
ScientificPeer-reviewed
Peer-ReviewedMINEDU's publication type classification code
A1 Journal article (refereed), original researchPublication channel information
Journal
Parent publication name
Publisher
Volume
6
Issue
4
ISSN
Publication forum
Publication forum level
1
Open access
Open access in the publisher’s service
Yes
Open access of publication channel
Fully open publication channel
Self-archived
Yes
Other information
Fields of science
Media and communications; Languages
Keywords
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Publication country
Denmark
Internationality of the publisher
International
Language
English
International co-publication
No
Co-publication with a company
No
DOI
10.7146/si.v6i4.136942
The publication is included in the Ministry of Education and Culture’s Publication data collection
Yes