{"title":"Face issues in second language teaching via videoconferencing: the role\u0000 of the smile as a co-verbal semiotic resource","authors":"Agnès Pétillat, A. Foucher, Ciara R. Wigham","doi":"10.14705/rpnet.2021.54.1341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2021.54.1341","url":null,"abstract":"Synchronous online language teaching involves the simultaneous\u0000 employment of a range of techno-semio-pedagogical competences (Guichon,\u0000 2012). Indeed, given their flexibility and versatility, digital tools and\u0000 the Internet can render teacher-student interactions dynamic. Among the\u0000 necessary professional skills and strategies for online synchronous\u0000 teaching, this paper focuses on the specific dimensions of affective\u0000 competences and the social need to maintain a climate of comfort during\u0000 one-to-one online tutoring interactions. We focus on a particular social\u0000 phenomenon that is strongly linked to emotions – facework (Goffman, 1967).\u0000 Applied to computer assisted language learning, we analyse how this social\u0000 practice unfolds in an interactional environment where the perception of the\u0000 other is mediated by a videoconferencing platform. We noted four different\u0000 types of facework triggering situations: lexical breakdowns, private\u0000 anecdote tellings, overlaps, and interruption of learner reflection time.\u0000 Our multimodal analysis of facework reveals the frequent use of the smile as\u0000 a mimicry semiotic resource and highlights the phenomenon of interactional\u0000 synchrony.","PeriodicalId":350173,"journal":{"name":"CALL and professionalisation: short papers from EUROCALL 2021","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130860449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}