Description
Teacher evaluations regarding students’ work are a common practice in learning contexts (Margutti & Drew, 2014; Seedhouse, 2004). We analyze evaluation sequences in a specific learning context, namely a construction site that belongs to a vocational school for adults. The students are second language speakers of Finnish taking part in a study program that prepares them for degrees in construction work. The goal of the program is to introduce vocational studies and to support the development of the students’ second language proficiency. Using a multimodal conversation analytic approach, this paper focuses on sequences where the students receive feedback from their teacher (L1 speaker of Finnish) on a physical work task they have previously been instructed in and that they now execute. The analysis is based on roughly 20.5 hours of video data collected at the site.The analysis of the video-recorded data shows that the evaluation sequences at practical construction work training resemble typical IRE sequences (Markee & Kasper, 2004). While such sequences in the classroom are usually temporally confined, the sequences in the construction site may be temporally extended as the teacher oscillates between multiple students all working in different spaces on different tasks. The evaluations are both teacher- and student-initiated (see Heinonen, 2017). The analysis shows how the multimodal design of the teacher’s evaluations reflects their orientation to the students’ emergent expertise in the task. This orientation becomes apparent in the formatting of the evaluations, for instance, whether they are produced solely verbally or also accompanied by manual demonstrations. At the same time, the evaluations show orientation to the students’ L2 interactional competence. The study contributes to a broader understanding of the use of verbal and embodied resources in teaching and learning manual skills in second language contexts and how the material environment shapes interaction in construction work.
| Aikajakso | 9 syysk. 2022 |
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| Tapahtuman otsikko | ICOP L2 - Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language |
| Tapahtuman tyyppi | Conference |
| Sijainti | Barcelona, EspanjaNäytä kartalla |
| Tunnustuksen arvo | International |