Event Date

Monday, October 15, 2018 - 16:00
 

Event Location

English Department Meeting Room, M8015, Level 8, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre

Conversation Analysis: Multimodal interaction and Second Language learning

In this talk, I will demonstrate how to analyze multimodal interaction and second language (L2) learning from a conversation analysis (CA) perspective. I will show how CA approaches multimodality by discussing my current research on placement meetings. I will show how textual objects take on locally differing categorial relevancies as textual, material, and assessable objects as the participants orient to the institutional agenda at hand, and how, reflexively, their shifting categorial relevancies are implicated in the local management of the activity. I will then talk about how CA approaches L2 learning by discussing my research on extensive reading book club. I will demonstrate how to analyze 1) learning as a visible socio-interactional practice, as opposed to hidden individual internal cognitive processes, and 2) development or learning trajectories of interactional competence over time.

Eunseok Ro is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at City University of Hong Kong. He has completed the PhD program Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and graduated in December 16^th, 2017. His research interests include conversation analysis, interactional competence, institutional interaction, literacy practices, and extensive reading. He is particularly interested in examining interactional data in educational contexts for second language teaching and learning. His recent work has appeared in journals such as Applied Linguistics, The Modern Language Journal, TESOL Quarterly, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, and The Journal of Asia TEFL.

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