{"title":"Rethinking peer interaction in language classrooms: students and L1 peers as mediators and experts in higher education","authors":"Suvi Kotkavuori","doi":"10.1080/00313831.2024.2348444","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In today ’ s multilingual and multicultural societies, di ff erent languages and cultural orientations converge for complex purposes. This study examines how Spanish language students and their native peers (L1 peer = L1P) experiment with dynamic and culturally embedded language uses in higher education. The data included conversation recordings between students ( N = 17) and L1Ps ( N = 2). A qualitative conversation analysis of the student-L1P interaction revealed multiple and shifting learner-expert positions that led to reciprocal intercultural mediation. Both students and L1Ps mediated diverse linguistic and cultural knowledge to each other by relying on a rich array of multimodal mediational means. However, the L1Ps ’ role as peers on the students ’ level was crucial in fostering communication in the target language beyond native and non-native speaker positions.","PeriodicalId":47669,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2024.2348444","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In today ’ s multilingual and multicultural societies, di ff erent languages and cultural orientations converge for complex purposes. This study examines how Spanish language students and their native peers (L1 peer = L1P) experiment with dynamic and culturally embedded language uses in higher education. The data included conversation recordings between students ( N = 17) and L1Ps ( N = 2). A qualitative conversation analysis of the student-L1P interaction revealed multiple and shifting learner-expert positions that led to reciprocal intercultural mediation. Both students and L1Ps mediated diverse linguistic and cultural knowledge to each other by relying on a rich array of multimodal mediational means. However, the L1Ps ’ role as peers on the students ’ level was crucial in fostering communication in the target language beyond native and non-native speaker positions.
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The Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research is an international refereed research journal focusing on central ideas and themes in educational thinking and research. The journal welcomes reports on philosophical, historical, comparative, experimental and survey studies and has no preferences - except quality - concerning the authors" choices of methodological perspectives. The journal reflects ongoing educational research in the nordic countries. It also encourages scholarly discussions on vital concepts, new issues and themes of importance for education in the future.