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Reissner-Roubicek, Sophie and Debray, Carolin (2018) Unpacking unequal participation through developing linguistic awareness in group discussion tasks. In: Symposium on Classroom Interaction at the Internationalised University, University of Surrey, 10 Dec 2018 (Unpublished)
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Abstract
Groupwork interaction is a major focus for researchers and practitioners interested in promoting more equal participation in the multi-national classroom. Student dissatisfaction with multi-national groupwork is well documented, but less well understood to emanate from interactional mismatches that result, ultimately, in unequal participation. Discussion tasks are an important context in which the impact of certain linguistic/interactional strategies in empowering or disempowering participants has been exposed (e.g. Baxter 2002, 2015; Gee, 2017), but research addressing solutions to this problem is so far limited. In response to calls for wider implementation of methodologies such as those discussed by Marra (2013) for raising awareness of different communication styles, the present study explores an approach in which participants analyse their own interaction in a typical collaborative task. We draw on examples from a corpus of audio and video data collected from classroom interaction involving three diverse teams of students from China, France, Italy, Philippines and Pakistan taking an intensive course in the UK. We report how participants scrutinised the features of their own interaction by drawing on analytical categories such as turn distribution, topic shift, interruptions, and overlap, together with questions, feedback, and humour. By linking micro-level features of their discussions to macro-level concepts such as leadership (cf. Walker & Aritz 2014), they were able to articulate the impact of differences in each other’s communication patterns and styles. Implications for promoting more equal participation in multi-national groups and teams through developing linguistic awareness and understanding the impact of particular discursive strategies will be discussed.
Item Type: | Conference Item (Paper) | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||
Official Date: | 2018 | ||||||
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Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Conference Paper Type: | Paper | ||||||
Title of Event: | Symposium on Classroom Interaction at the Internationalised University | ||||||
Type of Event: | Conference | ||||||
Location of Event: | University of Surrey | ||||||
Date(s) of Event: | 10 Dec 2018 | ||||||
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