Mori-Yanagimachi2015

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Mori-Yanagimachi2015
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Mori-Yanagimachi2015
Author(s) Junko Mori, Tomoharu Yanagimachi
Title Artifacts, gestures and dispensable speech: Multimodality in teaching and learning a biology laboratory technique
Editor(s) Dale A. Koike, Carl S. Blyth
Tag(s) EMCA, Ethnomethodology, Learning, Chinese, Multimodality, Laboratories, Japanese, Institutional, Instruction
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2015
Language English
City Amsterdam
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Number
Pages 221–251
URL Link
DOI 10.1075/ds.27.08mor
ISBN
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School
Type
Edition
Series Dialogue Studies
Howpublished
Book title Dialogue in Multilingual and Multimodal Communities
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Abstract

The chapter examines the nature of embodied, multimodal language use in science training in a segment of an interaction where a Japanese professor and a Chinese student engaged in teaching and learning a basic laboratory technique. The analysis, informed by ethnomethodological and conversation analytic studies of learning, reveals how the participants’ coordinated, non-verbal conduct played a critical role in the professor’s instruction and the student’s indication of understanding, which in turn mutually affected each other. The student’s limited proficiency in Japanese, the chosen language of instruction, was not explicitly problematized during this interaction, but her ability to demonstrate understanding by acting appropriately in accordance with the ongoing development of the professor’s instruction was treated as essential for this apprenticeship learning.

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