{"title":"AI partner or peer partner? Exploring AI-mediated interaction in EFL pronunciation from a socio-cultural perspective","authors":"Ling Li , Xiaoyue Zhang , Bin Zou , Qin Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100958","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100958","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This sequential explanatory mixed-methods study examines the effects of AI-mediated pronunciation interaction on the pronunciation skills of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners, as well as its influence on foreign language anxiety and enjoyment, framed within Vygotsky's sociocultural theory. Learners' attitudes toward AI-mediated pronunciation activities were also qualitatively explored. Participants (<em>N</em> = 100) were divided into an experimental group (<em>N</em> = 51), who engaged in AI-mediated interactive speaking activities using EAP TALK, and a control group (<em>N</em> = 49), who participated in peer-mediated pronunciation tasks via WeChat. Quantitative data were collected through a pronunciation test and an EFL anxiety and enjoyment scale, and analyzed using paired and independent samples <em>t</em>-tests along with ANCOVA. Qualitative data were derived from individual reflective reports and analyzed thematically. Results indicated that both groups improved their pronunciation proficiency and enjoyment, but the experimental group showed significantly greater gains in these areas. The sociocultural analysis revealed that AI-mediated tools served as digitally embedded more knowledgeable others, offering adaptive scaffolding aligned with Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). Moreover, peer-mediated learning also facilitated meaningful linguistic interaction and emotional support, though the quality of feedback varied across groups. While learners generally expressed positive attitudes toward AI-mediated instruction, they also reported challenges related to speech recognition and feedback accuracy. These findings highlight the complementary strengths of AI- and peer-mediated approaches, offering practical implications for the integration of technology-enhanced pronunciation instruction in EFL contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 100958"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145526083","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":"No place for remote students? Navigating transitions of hybrid co-presence in seminar rooms and lecture halls","authors":"Kenan Hochuli, Johanna Jud","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100923","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100923","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the dynamics of hybrid learning environments in university contexts, examining how spatial-material arrangements influence interaction and engagement. Analyzing video recordings from a linguistics seminar and a mathematics lecture at the University of Zurich, we highlight the challenges faced by lecturers in managing co-presence between on-site and remote students. The research uncovers the complexities in segregating and integrating participants, revealing the inadequacies of traditional learning spaces for hybrid formats. Our findings suggest the need for architectural and technological redesigns that facilitate more inclusive and effective hybrid interactions. This study contributes essential insights into enhancing hybrid learning experiences in higher education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"55 ","pages":"Article 100923"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145364804","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":"Dealing with divergent feedback trajectories in video-mediated, transnational, and collaborative task design meetings","authors":"Fulya Çolak , Ufuk Balaman","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100936","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100936","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates mutual pedagogical decision making among transnational groups of pre-service teachers (from Austria and Türkiye) involved in finalizing the design of telecollaborative tasks after receiving multimodal feedback from different teacher educators. Within the scope of a Virtual Exchange project, while the teacher educator from the Turkish university conducted a large-group, whole-class, video-mediated meeting offering feedback, the teacher educator from the Austrian university preferred delivering written feedback. Examining the screen-recordings of pre-service teachers' video-mediated meetings and the diverse feedback sources, we found that the divergent feedback trajectories provide opportunities for pedagogical design-related decision making and meaning negotiation for pre-service teachers. The findings also show the synergies between the multilayered frameworks of participation and engagement in situ and bring new insights into the interactional management of video-mediated learning environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 100936"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144932043","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":"Lessons from a change laboratory in plant health risk management: The dynamics of concept formation","authors":"Irene Vänninen , Marco Antonio Pereira Querol","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100944","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100944","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Addressing complex societal challenges needs the formation of new concepts. This process is inherently collective, historical and culturally mediated. Despite the importance of concept formation, the dynamics and use of artifacts at different levels of abstraction during concept formation interventions remain poorly understood. This paper analyses the collective dynamics and content of learning moves within a Change Laboratory intervention conducted with a heterogeneous stakeholder group in the Plant Health Risk Management Network, focusing on temporal dynamics and use of instruments in concept formation. Our findings show that concept formation involves the interplay of spatial and temporal elements within the activity system. The analysis of learning moves from our intervention shows an oscillatory movement between past, present and future, with an emphasis on the present and future. Furthermore, the intervention showed a balanced use of tools, although models and visions were prevalent. The learning trajectory observed within the intervention differed from previous studies, suggesting that each intervention follows a unique path shaped by the social and historical context of the participants and the approach of the interventionist. This study provides new analytical tools for depicting the dynamics in formative interventions, contributing to a deeper understanding of concept formation processes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 100944"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145010098","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}
David Sjöberg , Oscar Rantatalo , Rebecca Baxter , Lina Gyllencreutz
{"title":"The importance of ‘workarounds’ in simulation training – A case study of a first responder mass casualty incident MR simulation","authors":"David Sjöberg , Oscar Rantatalo , Rebecca Baxter , Lina Gyllencreutz","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100924","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100924","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines a Mixed Reality (MR) simulation aiming to train first responders for mass casualty incidents (MCIs). The focus is on how trainees and instructors use workarounds to address uncertainties, and technical glitches during the simulation. Advancements in MR offer new approaches to MCI training, either replacing or complementing traditional methods. Using observations, audio and video recordings, and interviews, we analysed interactions through Goffman's concepts of ‘frame,’ ‘footing,’ and ‘rules of irrelevance. Findings show that participants in this MR simulation use a range of workarounds, to deal with glitches that arise in the training system and uphold the simulation, bridging gaps between real-world tasks and the MR simulation. Workarounds can be understood through the participants' framings of the situation, and how they shifted footings and frames. Findings demonstrated the importance of considering which representation from real-world work practices needs to be included in the simulation to ensure workarounds do not hinder the intended learning objectives. To mitigate this risk, organisers, instructors, and trainees must develop and deepen their competencies and understanding of the pedagogical underpinnings of simulation practice. These insights underscore the importance of viewing MR simulations as distinct practices with their own logic and conditions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 100924"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144704116","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":"Exploring a Chinese kindergarten teacher's perezhivanie when teaching mathematics in an educational experiment","authors":"Wenxuan Zhang, Liang Li, Leigh Disney","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100938","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100938","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The interplay between teachers' emotions and cognition profoundly influences their pedagogical practices. While the previous literature on kindergarten teachers' professional development emphasises the cognitive aspect of practice, there is a lack of research addressing their emotional experience during the professional development training. This study addresses this gap by exploring a Chinese kindergarten teacher's emotional experiences and professional developmental process during an educational experiment designed for teaching mathematics in a play-based context. Two Chinese kindergarten teachers, who worked with children aged 5 to 6 years, participated in the study. Focusing primarily on the emotional trajectory of one participant, referred to as Teacher Qing, the study applies Vygotsky's cultural-historical concepts of <em>perezhivanie</em> and <em>crisis</em> as its theoretical framework. Findings revealed that Teacher Qing's crisis moments, which arose during the implementation of a new pedagogical approach, served as crucial opportunities for her to address the theoretical problem of bringing play into mathematics concepts learning. The authentic and complex emotional experiences Teacher Qing navigated while teaching mathematics in a play-based context contributed significantly to understanding the pivotal role emotions play in shaping pedagogical practices. The educational experiment successfully addressed Teacher Qing's crisis moments and fostered pedagogical change by supporting her emotionally and cognitively. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of how perezhivanie can drive pedagogical change, offering valuable insights into processes that foster teachers' professional development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 100938"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144830867","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}
Dorien Petri , Margreet Luinge , Klaas van Veen , Annelies Kassenberg , Eddie Denessen
{"title":"Cultural knowledge of students for primary school teachers: A scoping review","authors":"Dorien Petri , Margreet Luinge , Klaas van Veen , Annelies Kassenberg , Eddie Denessen","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100926","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100926","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Primary school teachers can enhance their teaching and provide inclusive education by using their students' cultural knowledge. Cultural knowledge, however, is a broad term and is often used as an abstract concept. To make this more concrete, we identified, organized, and categorized the concept of cultural knowledge through a scoping review. A literature search was conducted in five databases, and we included 84 studies. We identified twelve domains related to the students themselves, their families, and their communities. For example, students' ethnic background, families' home characteristics, and cultural identity. By concretizing the domains, schools and teachers can delve into the cultural knowledge of students and enrich their teaching in multicultural settings. Additionally, this research contributes to a conceptual understanding of cultural knowledge, providing a foundation for further research and practical application in educational settings to improve teaching strategies in multicultural settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 100926"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144713666","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":"Multimodal repair initiations in video-mediated EFL classroom interactions: Focus on screen-based and embodied actions","authors":"Fatma Badem","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100935","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100935","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The recent COVID-19 pandemic has prompted the integration of numerous digital teaching tools into educational practices conducted on various videoconferencing platforms with geographically dispersed learners. In video-mediated interactional settings characterized by interactional asymmetry and limited visibility of non-verbal cues (e.g., gestures, gaze, or body language), embodiment is notably one of the most affected interactional elements by the local configurations of interactional context. This restricted access to participants' embodied actions due to fractured video-frames poses challenges in maintaining intersubjectivity in video-mediated instructional activities. However, despite playing an essential role in repair, multimodal practices addressing interactional breakdowns have remained largely unexplored in online classrooms. Adopting a multimodal conversation analytic approach to the examination of 67 h of screen-recorded video-mediated English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom interaction, this study explores the deployment of multimodal repair initiation practices to maintain the progressivity of interaction and pedagogy. The findings show that by initiating repair through both embodied and screen-based actions to address the students' dispreferred responses, the teacher promotes self-repair and builds interactional space for the students. Revealing how self-repair -a preferred practice in most L2 pedagogical settings- can be transferable to fully online, video-mediated classroom environments, this study brings new insights into language teaching practices in such educational settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 100935"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145095151","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":"Exploring interactional competence of English-medium-instruction students: A multimodal conversation and interpretative phenomenological analysis","authors":"Nuntapat Supunya , Supong Tangkiengsirisin","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100945","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100945","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The co-construction of intersubjectivity during disciplinary knowledge exchange among multilingual students in English-medium-instruction (EMI) programmes is intricate, expanding beyond language use to involve a range of multimodal resources employed during interactions. Such practice underpins the concept of <em>interactional competence</em> (IC). Despite the proliferation of IC studies advanced by conversation analysis (CA), the crystallisation of what constitutes this dynamic construct remains, necessitating methodological triangulation and a need for data-driven inquiries into its components. Central to this study was the exploration of EMI students' IC mediated through their use of resources-<em>at-talk</em> to co-construct intersubjectivity for knowledge acquisition during learning at a Thai university. A multimodal conversation analysis (MCA) was employed to analyse five video-recorded interactions across three months, complemented by an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) of four subsequent stimulated recall interviews. Using purposive sampling, six EMI students (<em>M</em> = 4, <em>F</em> = 2) agreed to participate in this project. The inductive analyses revealed that EMI students' IC were mediated through eight interactional resources used – social actions, interactional mechanisms, linguistic knowledge, non-linguistic resources, pragmalinguistics, sociopragmatics, content knowledge, and psychological components. The analyses highlight a meaningful finding that IC appears to be psychology-driven, as evident in its influence on interlocutors' engagement, participation, and subsequent deployment of other resources. Understanding the knowledge co-construction process in EMI-student interaction brings pedagogical benefits to pre-EMI programmes, assisting them with EMI learning and real-world interactional success.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 100945"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145019103","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":"Showing smartphones in a collaborative learning activity in video-mediated L2 interaction","authors":"Jenny Gudmundsen","doi":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100941","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lcsi.2025.100941","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The study zooms in on video-mediated smartphone showings in a collaborative online learning activity. In these showings, a participant brings their smartphone to the webcam, and graphic-linguistic features of the display are developed into a joint focus of attention in a digital language café. Drawing on multimodal Conversation Analysis (CA), the study illustrates how one L1 user and one L2 user of Norwegian turn the activity of talking about a podcast show into a stepwise learning activity in which their smartphones become the focal objects in the interaction. The findings demonstrate that video-mediated smartphone showings constitute a complex, multimodal and highly collaborative practice. It provides opportunities for various social actions in the service of promoting both smartphone engagement and interactive engagement. Moreover, the article discusses how this ostensive practice facilitates learning. The study provides new and empirical insights into how participants use smartphones in learning activities in video-mediated interaction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46850,"journal":{"name":"Learning Culture and Social Interaction","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 100941"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145019104","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}