EMCA Teaching Resources

last changes: 28 March 2012 (updateme!)

ASA Meetings workshop report

A CA teaching workshop, ‘Teaching Conversation Analysis: Practical Experience and Methods,’ has been held at the 2009 American Sociological Association meetings in San Francisco (August 8-11th).

The workshop panellists have shared their practical wisdom, skills, resources and experience relating to teaching conversation analysis to a variety of audiences. Speakers included Virginia Teas Gill, Steve Clayman and Nick Llewellyn.

In association with this workshop, Ruth Parry, Virginia Teas Gill and Paul ten Have are collaborating in an initiative to bring together teaching materials for conversation analysis and ethnomethodology courses, and make them publicly available on the Ethno/CA News website.

Invitation to Submit Materials

We invite members of the community to donate materials:

• syllabi
• course outlines
• powerpoint slides
• student participation and assignment exercises
• assessment techniques
• online resources and useful links
• reference materials / book lists

For enquiries and more information on how to submit materials, please contact

Dr Ruth Parry, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Science and Society, University of Nottingham, UK. Email: ruth.parry’at’nottingham.ac.uk

Links to Teaching resources

Tutorials & Talks

• Charles Antaki’s resources, Lectures on analyzing talk and interaction and online introductory CA tutorial: http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~ssca1/

• Paul ten Have: “Doing CA”, A slide show; a 11-slide introduction, based on my book Doing conversation analysis,  for a ‘master class’ at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 20 May 2009: a downloadable exe-file that can be played on any computer or a pdf-file with the text of the slides

• Nick Llewellyn’s resources: http://llewellyn.nick.googlepages.com/tutorial  Notes and demonstration on analysing observational real time data

• Manny Schegloff’s homepage, includes transcription module: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/schegloff/
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• Elizabeth Stokoe: Conversations, Categories, and Applications: Methods for Analysing Interaction, March 23rd, 2011 Video
• Elizabeth Stokoe: Inaugural Lecture: http://review.lboro.ac.uk:8080/ess/echo/presentation/8595ca30-f616-43d2-a402-b3438395eff7

Software

• Centre for Applied Interaction Research (University College London),Introductory reading lists, software for audio and video data manipulation, guidelines for transcription:  http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cair/resources_folder

• CLAN:software for the transcription, coding, analysis, and sharing of transcripts of conversations linked to either audio or video media:info here.

• ELAN software - multimedia annotator: http://www.mpi.nl/tools/

• Transana: Qualitative analysis software for video and audio data: http://www.transana.org

Course syllabi & (PP) presentations

• Barry Brown:  lectures from his introduction to communications class, in PDF: CA, Social construction of reality, Gesture, Work

• Virginia Teas Gill:course Syllabus:  Social Interaction: PDF

Databases

• Talkbankcommunication databases (take care to read the ground rules/conditions of use): http://www.talkbank.org

• Mike Forrester’s Child CA data corpus, at the CHILDES (Child Language Data Exchange System) - http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/

Other resources

• Jonathan Potter’s homepage: Resources on transcription, Publications, many of them relevant to conversation analysis: http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~ssjap/index.htm

• Jack Sidnell’s CA glossary: http://individual.utoronto.ca/jsidnell/Sidnell.CAoverview.html

• Manny Schegloff’s homepage, Includes publications archive and transcription module: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/schegloff/

• An article for a qualitative researcher readership introducing the ideas of conversation analysis, with accessible illustrations and a reading list, written by Celia Kitzinger and Merran Toerien: http://www.aqr.org.uk/indepth/summer2009/

• An online resource via ‘E-Source research’ written by John Heritage about conversation analysis, slanted towards conversation analytic research on medical settings, includes exercises for readers: http://www.esourceresearch.org/tabid/382/default.aspx

You Tube

YouTube items relevant to EM and/or CA, suggested by Jack Bilmes:

• Jack Bilmes talking about ethnomethodology at IPRA 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMMFaujW2qI
• An interview with Michael Emmison from the University of Queensland on the basic ideas and research principles of ethnomethodology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvPSVvmYaaA
• Fabienne Chevalier from the university of Nottingham speaking about conversation analysis at IPRA 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLqglRwk_RQ
• Ann Weatherall discussing conversation analysis and it’s usefulness in psychology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQEsZZuCYDA
• Audio: Edward Reynolds talking about ethnomethodology and conversation analysis on The University of Queensland’s JACradio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwGcSIg2IJY&feature=channel