EMCA Teaching Resources

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

Links to Teaching resources

Tutorials & Talks

• Data Sessions

• CASE advisory on equipment for recording and analysing in CA

• 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/

• 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

• Learning How to Look and to Listen : Videos from a conference to document and illustrate the basic patterns of visual and auditory attention that are employed by researchers (e.g. Chuck Goodwin, Jürgen Streeck, John Haviland, Barbara Rogoff, Wolff-Michael Roth, Jasmine Ma, Mark Sicoli, and Sarah Jean Johnson) who use video to study social interaction.

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

• Shotcut: Video editing software - and a howto by Dr. Joe Ford: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg0Wf9RlqvSDf9J9I2rirb5Ah1y8wXBd4

Course syllabi & (PP) presentations

• See the new EMCA Course Materials page.

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

• 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

• There's a great bibliography of Social Studies of Science by Michael Mair, Christian Greiffenhagen and Wes Sharrock - full of EM/CA references, and very useful for relating EM/CA to the broader literature on that topic.

Video

See also EMCA-relevant Media

Videos for use in lectures/presentations

• Funny videos that can help to explain CA concepts

Useful clips to send to students

• Emily Hofstetter's excellent series of videos introducing CA concepts.
• 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 Ch
• Nice video explanation of why AI/Robotics struggles with indexicality, reference & dialogue: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06jt7j4

Resources on this wiki

• How to explain conversation analysis to quantitative researchers