Using the body and material artefacts for spatial reasoning in classroom programming activities

IF 2.1 2区文学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Linguistics and Education Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-06 DOI:10.1016/j.linged.2026.101502

Kreeta Niemi , Teppo Jakonen , Susanne Roos

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Abstract

We use multimodal conversation analysis to investigate programming activities as embodied and interactional phenomena. Drawing on the theory of embodied cognition, we analyse video-recorded interactions of Finnish pupils aged 9–10 years who are programming block-based codes for educational robots for a collaborative story animation project. The analysis focuses on how the pupils negotiate directional instructions, transform them into code, and implement their programming. The analysis reveals i) how the coding platform and its features constitute a situated problem and material space that the participants structure through embodied and social negotiation, ii) how the participants use their bodies as resources for cognitive reasoning and communicating the contingencies of the activity and iii) engage in object manipulation for testing and accommodating what is possible with the space and materials. The findings also indicate that a trial-and-error approach in which pupils test, observe and refine their code is essential to activity engagement and for developing programming and computational thinking skills.

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在课堂程序设计活动中使用身体和物质人工制品进行空间推理

我们使用多模态会话分析来研究编程活动作为具体的和交互的现象。根据具身认知理论，我们分析了9-10岁芬兰学生的互动视频，这些学生正在为一个合作故事动画项目编写基于块的教育机器人代码。分析的重点是学生如何处理定向指令，将其转换为代码，并实现他们的编程。分析揭示了i)编码平台及其特征如何构成参与者通过具体化和社会协商构建的情境问题和物质空间；ii)参与者如何使用他们的身体作为认知推理和交流活动偶然事件的资源；iii)参与对象操作以测试和容纳空间和材料的可能性。研究结果还表明，学生测试、观察和改进代码的试错方法对参与活动、培养编程和计算思维技能至关重要。

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期刊介绍： Linguistics and Education encourages submissions that apply theory and method from all areas of linguistics to the study of education. Areas of linguistic study include, but are not limited to: text/corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, functional grammar, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, conversational analysis, linguistic anthropology/ethnography, language acquisition, language socialization, narrative studies, gesture/ sign /visual forms of communication, cognitive linguistics, literacy studies, language policy, and language ideology.