Greer2019a

Greer2019a
BibType	INCOLLECTION
Key	Greer2019a
Author(s)	Tim Greer
Title	Noticing words in the wild
Editor(s)	John Hellerman, Soren W. Eskildsen, Simona Pekarek Doehler, Arja Piirainen-Marsh
Tag(s)	EMCA
Publisher	Springer
Year	2019
Language	English
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Pages	131-158
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Series	Educational Linguistics
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Book title	Conversation Analytic Research on Learning-in-Action: The Complex Ecology of Second Language Interaction ‘in the wild’
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This chapter draws on multi-modal Conversation Analysis to examine instances of mundane L2 interaction in which participants orient to learning new lexical items. Such sequences are initiated when one speaker pays attention to an instance of language use, either in the just-prior talk or via some environmentally available target word. This typically involves a repetition of the target lexical item which topicalizes it for the other participants and can lead to the sort of talk regularly seen in language classrooms, including explanations, alternative formulations, and intersubjective repair. Occasionally such sequences also include explicit noticing of learning itself, which momentarily indexes the co-participants' relative identity categories. The chapter tracks episodes of L2 talk in two distinct non-classroom contexts: (1) English dinner table talk between a Japanese student and his American homestay host family and (2) mundane Japanese talk between non-Japanese clients and Japanese hairdressers. The analysis examines the layered manner in which elements such as intonation, gaze, gesture and physical objects co-occur with the talk to accomplish noticing as an orientation to language learning. Epistemic asymmetries made relevant in the interaction afford novice language users access to the lexical resources they require and locally ascribe the expert speaker with teacher-like qualities.

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