Pengjin Wang , Chao Yang , Yuyao Tong , Gaowei Chen
{"title":"Discursive engagement for intersubjectivity: Investigating the verbal–visual relationship of productive classroom talk in synchronous online lessons","authors":"Pengjin Wang , Chao Yang , Yuyao Tong , Gaowei Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100892","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100892","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In synchronous online environments, lesson delivery is restricted mainly to verbal (oral or spoken interactions, e.g., speaking using microphones) and visual (e.g., sharing PowerPoint slides) modes. Considering that classroom talk and visual display are essential semiotic sources, we investigated the synergy created by the combination of productive classroom talk and visual prompts to understand how teachers interact with students in a fully online environment. Multiple sources of data from two teachers and their students (<em>n</em> = 54) were triangulated, including student questionnaires, classroom talk transcripts, and teachers' visual prompts. We used questionnaire results to understand students' perception of classroom discourse, visualizations to uncover patterns in classroom talk, and multimodal conversation analysis to delve into the discrepancies between teacher's and students' situation definitions when encountering visual prompts. We found that, to a certain extent, the teachers effectively used productive classroom talk, and the students were discursively engaged in online lessons. Further, teachers' strategic use of talk helped build intersubjectivity during online lessons. The results suggest that teachers can leave space for dialogues by attending to students' cognitive processes and using productive talk moves to invite elaboration and reasoning. Additionally, teachers can design constructive tasks while reducing direct instruction in online lessons.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100892"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143177679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retraction notice to “The impact of different scaffolding techniques on IELTS candidates' writing anxiety: From perceptions to facts” [Learning, Culture and Social Interaction 40 (2023) 100715]","authors":"Hamed Abbasi Mojdehi, Abbas Ali Zarei","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100871","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100871","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100871"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143172542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating tensions between despair and hope - Arab teachers' perception in challenging situations in Jewish schools","authors":"Dolly Eliyahu-Levi , Avi Gvura","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100878","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100878","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present research reveals the challenges and coping methods of Arab teachers in Hebrew-language schools based on Contact Theory in a multicultural context. This qualitative study uses a semi-structured interview of interpretive processes influenced by personal and social structures. The participants: nine Muslim Arab teachers, ages 25–32, teaching in a Jewish school. The findings: these Arab teachers are agents of change reducing prejudices and stereotypical perceptions between the two groups. The teachers deal forcefully with diverse challenges through coping mechanisms running between silence through pedagogical courage in revealing their personal Arab stories.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100878"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143172541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frames within frames: Research, education and play in linguistic ethnographies of early childhood education and care","authors":"Marie Rickert , Verena Platzgummer","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100881","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100881","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores how teachers, children, and researchers jointly construct different definitions of a situation, i.e. establish different frames during fieldwork in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). Drawing on two distinct linguistic ethnographies, one in Limburg/the Netherlands and one in South Tyrol/Italy, we zoom in on how we as ethnographers and our participants enact a variety of frames across situations, focusing on the frequently reoccurring research frames, educational frames and play frames. Our analysis shows that these different frames are constantly layered in our interactions in the field, and that dynamic researcher positionings emerge as a result. This insight challenges the common practice to break down researcher positionings into one static role in academic discourse. As a meaningful alternative, the paper suggests a detailed account of the interactional co-construction of frames with participants, accompanied with insights from the researchers' lived experience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100881"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143172540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multimodality, embodiment, and language learning in bilingual early childhood education: Enskilment practices in a Swedish–English preschool","authors":"Olga Anatoli","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100879","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100879","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Institutions of early childhood education and care (ECEC) constitute an important environment for children's learning and development, yet little is known about language-supportive interactions in ECEC settings beyond teacher-led educational activities or children's peer play. This study on a bilingual Swedish–English preschool draws attention to teacher–child interactions during transitional activities as a space for situated learning and enskilment in practical tasks, e.g., dressing or cleaning. Specifically, the study describes how teachers and young children (1–2- and 3–4-year-olds) participate in embodied instructional exchanges amid a one-teacher/one-language policy. The study is based on multimodal conversation analysis of video-recordings collected during ethnographic fieldwork in Sweden. The analysis reveals the teachers' embodied and verbal strategies for instructing and scaffolding children's actions, socializing the children in the institutional interactional routines, and modeling linguistic patterns in two languages. The analysis describes how young children participate in the enskilment practices as agentive members in the preschool as a community of practice and a language learning ecology. The study supports research on the connection between children's participation, the development of embodied skills, and language learning, and highlights the pedagogical value of mundane encounters in ECEC.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100879"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143172545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crossing boundaries–pre-service teachers' situated and imagined views of socioemotional competence and dialogicality","authors":"Auli Lehtinen, Emma Kostiainen, Piia Näykki","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100880","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100880","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pre-service teachers often hold idealistic or static views of socioemotional competence. More research is needed on their situated reflections and imagined futures. This study focuses on pre-service secondary teachers' situated and imagined views of the socioemotional and dialogical dimensions of becoming and being a teacher. The study took place within multidisciplinary collaboration, online teaching, and the COVID pandemic. Fourteen pre-service teachers' interviews were analyzed with reflexive thematic analysis, applying the concept of boundary crossing. Our findings indicated three boundaries: between (1) disciplines, (2) online and face-to-face practices, and (3) being a student and being a teacher. In their situated views, pre-service teachers crossed disciplinary boundaries in collaboration with the help of social cohesion, perceived a threshold in online interaction, and held a normative conception of talkativeness. In their imagined futures, they struggled to specify socioemotional competence, emphasized challenging situations as a boundary, and expressed dialogical and monological voices regarding teachers' competences. There were tensions at the boundary between situated and imagined views, indicating idealized beliefs. Implications include providing safe spaces and time for collaborative boundary crossing and critical reflection. Our study addresses teachers' socioemotional competence and dialogicality amid crises and further theorizes the boundary between the situated and the imagined.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100880"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143172544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jorge Chávez Rojas , Jaime Fauré , Juan Pablo Barril , Rodrigo Fuentealba Jara , Vanessa Valdebenito Zambrano , Jesús Almuna , Patricio Quezada-Carrasco , Paul Salter
{"title":"Informal learning experiences in the construction and development of professional teacher identity","authors":"Jorge Chávez Rojas , Jaime Fauré , Juan Pablo Barril , Rodrigo Fuentealba Jara , Vanessa Valdebenito Zambrano , Jesús Almuna , Patricio Quezada-Carrasco , Paul Salter","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100893","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100893","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This work is part of a larger research project that explores how professional teacher identity is constructed and developed. For the present study, we analysed 22 informal experiences. These experiences have been analysed in terms of their contribution to the formation of professional teacher identity. We designed a qualitative multiple case study in which semi-structured interviews were applied to 26 student teachers. We applied our own form of discourse analysis based on certain discursive markers. Our main findings are that identity change occurs not only through traditional formal experiences, but also through informal experiences and interactions between the two. We propose the importance of what we term informal experiences in establishing connections and driving the formation and development of identity. Finally, we suggest that professional teacher identity serves as an ‘adhesive’ that unites the various learnings achieved in different contexts over time. We conclude with a discussion in which we propose that identity should be considered an interconnected and subjective phenomenon, rather than a personal resource. We also propose that identity is connected to dialogic aspects involving a sense of collaboration and participation, and that these can be transferred from informal contexts to formal contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100893"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143177680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recruiting help in everyday research work: Epistemic stance taking and accountability in interaction","authors":"Fabíola Stein","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100890","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100890","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how novice researchers (master's and PhD students) independently initiate knowledge sharing and instructional activities in the midst of everyday research work. Approaching such activities as instances of help recruitment, the study draws on multimodal conversation analysis to describe how novices mobilize assistance from more experienced peers and supervisors. The interactional data was generated at a Physical Chemistry research program of a Swedish university, and consists of video-recordings of different spontaneous interactions at laboratories and shared offices, including a supervision meeting. The study focuses on recruitment sequences where help seekers refrain from displaying full lack of knowledge or skill. The analyses show how novices (1) use particular framings, such as “quick question”, and confirmation requests to particularize the scope of their problems and mitigate unknowing stances; (2) legitimize their requests for assistance by addressing their shared history with the recipient party; and (3) withhold direct requests in favor of producing accounts and displaying limited epistemic access, as if to “fish” for help. Through these methods, help seekers accountably frame and design their requests finely modulating epistemic stances, while constructing and upholding themselves as potential members of the scientific workplace, i.e., as researchers in training who need assistance at specific moments and regarding particular problems. By uncovering the intricate ways in which epistemic stance taking and issues of accountability relate to the accomplishment of help recruitment, the study also shows how novices address matters of autonomy and competence within apprenticeship situations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100890"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143177688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Laughing together in supervision interaction","authors":"Zhiying Jian","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100888","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100888","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>It is well known that laughter in conversation serves to manage delicacy or achieve solidarity. This study examines the shared laughter between students and supervisors during university supervision meetings. Drawing from 20 sequences of joint laughter, this conversation analytic study identifies patterns regarding how such joint laughter is achieved, the turn features of laughables that lead to it, and what the joint laughter accomplishes in the interaction. It is shown that joint laughter typically follows a laugh invitation or voluntary laughter responsive to a laughable turn, regardless of which party initiates it. In particular, misaligning actions significantly contribute as the source of laughables. Through joint laughter, participants demonstrate their equal affective stance regarding the laughable matter, and promote a more productive interaction. Overall, this study aims to enhance our understanding of supervision interactions by elucidating seemingly trivial phenomenon like laughing together. Data were collected in institutions in the UK, and all recorded interactions are in English.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100888"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143177690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating upper-secondary school learners' contributions in co-regulation and socially shared regulation during collaborative learning","authors":"Sara Ahola, Jonna Malmberg, Hanna Järvenoja","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100870","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2024.100870","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The participation of group members is vital in collaborative learning (CL) to achieve a shared goal. When challenges are inevitably faced during CL, retaking control of the shared learning processes calls for group members' regulatory contributions. Yet, research on how learners contribute to group-level regulation is limited. To understand how regulation manifests in collaborative group contexts, there is a need to understand the role that individual learners' contributions play. Therefore, the current study aims to explore how learners contribute to regulation in an authentic face-to-face CL setting. The study participants comprised 94 seventh graders. The context of the study was a physics course where participants were videotaped during their collaborative work across four 90-min lessons. Thirteen different contributions were identified based on detailed qualitative video analysis. The results from process models show that co-regulation of learning (CoRL) and socially shared regulation of learning (SSRL) episodes commonly initiated in a similar manner and shared the most typical path in terms of the contributions. However, differences emerged, highlighting the central roles of guiding and following in CoRL, and sharedness and co-construction in SSRL. The study sheds light on how learner contributions should be considered while trying to understand regulation among CL groups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"49 ","pages":"Article 100870"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142699915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}