EvansReynolds2016

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EvansReynolds2016
BibType ARTICLE
Key EvansReynolds2016
Author(s) Bryn Evans, Edward Reynolds
Title The organization of corrective demonstrations using embodied action in sports coaching feedback
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Tag(s) Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, Correction sequences, Coaching process
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Year 2016
Language English
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Journal Symbolic Interaction
Volume 39
Number 4
Pages 525–556
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DOI 10.1002/symb.255
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Abstract

Focusing on video recordings of coaching sessions in the context of basketball and powerlifting, this paper investigates how the sports coaching process unfolds as situated interactions. The work of sports coaching is pervasively oriented toward teaching athletes the correct forms of motion and play. Correction then is one of the central constitutive practices of sports training sessions. In this paper, we draw on a collection of instances of correction demonstrations from powerlifting and basketball to describe their order. We demonstrate the three phases of these demonstrations: arranging bodies and gaze for visual access, presenting the error visually, and proposing a correction with an embodied demonstration. Findings underscore the management of shared visual access in multi-party correction demonstrations. In demonstrating how multiple bodies may be involved in embodied reenactments of a correctable problem, and demonstrating that it is seeing an error, more than reenactment per se, that is necessary for correction activities, the study extends existing understandings both of sports coaching processes and of instructional correction in embodied activities.

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