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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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Organizations and authors

University of Helsinki

Lehtimaja Inkeri

Kotilainen Lari

Kurhila Salla

Publication type

Publication format

Article

Parent publication type

Journal

Article type

Original article

Audience

Scientific

Peer-reviewed

Peer-Reviewed

MINEDU's publication type classification code

A1 Journal article (refereed), original research

Publication channel information

Parent publication name

Social interaction

Volume

6

Issue

4

​Publication forum

87173

​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