Patterns of negotiation of meaning routine in online forum discussion

This study examines a text-based, asynchronous online forum discussion among English language teacher trainers who were involved in a two-week online professional development course. It investigates the participants’ negotiation of meaning routine when they come across new content related item an...

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Main Authors: Abdul Karim, Noor Mazni, Abdul Ghani, Rozina, Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail
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spelling iium-629712018-04-10T07:24:38Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/62971/ Patterns of negotiation of meaning routine in online forum discussion Abdul Karim, Noor Mazni Abdul Ghani, Rozina Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail H Social Sciences (General) PN Literature (General) This study examines a text-based, asynchronous online forum discussion among English language teacher trainers who were involved in a two-week online professional development course. It investigates the participants’ negotiation of meaning routine when they come across new content related item and describes the pattern of this negotiation of meaning routine. A textual analysis method, employing Smith’s (2003) expansion of Varonis and Gass Model (1985) for negotiation of meaning, was utilised to analyse the discussion threads. The analysis revealed that the participants did engage in negotiation of meaning and all the four negotiation of meaning steps (trigger, indicator, response and reply to response) were evident. It was also revealed that content triggers, local indicator, elaboration in responses and task appropriate response were frequently used. As the application of CMD for teaching and learning is increasing, findings of this study could inform educators about the kind of strategies that could enrich online interaction. Universiti Putra Malaysia 2017-09 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/62971/1/62971_Patterns%20of%20negotiation%20of%20meaning%20routine_article.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/62971/2/62971_Patterns%20of%20negotiation%20of%20meaning%20routine_scopus.pdf Abdul Karim, Noor Mazni and Abdul Ghani, Rozina and Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail (2017) Patterns of negotiation of meaning routine in online forum discussion. Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities, 25 (3). pp. 1227-1240. ISSN 0128-7702 E-ISSN 2231-8534 http://www.pertanika.upm.edu.my/Pertanika%20PAPERS/JSSH%20Vol.%2025%20(3)%20Sep.%202017/13%20JSSH-1589-2016-4thProof.pdf
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Abdul Karim, Noor Mazni
Abdul Ghani, Rozina
Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail
Patterns of negotiation of meaning routine in online forum discussion
description This study examines a text-based, asynchronous online forum discussion among English language teacher trainers who were involved in a two-week online professional development course. It investigates the participants’ negotiation of meaning routine when they come across new content related item and describes the pattern of this negotiation of meaning routine. A textual analysis method, employing Smith’s (2003) expansion of Varonis and Gass Model (1985) for negotiation of meaning, was utilised to analyse the discussion threads. The analysis revealed that the participants did engage in negotiation of meaning and all the four negotiation of meaning steps (trigger, indicator, response and reply to response) were evident. It was also revealed that content triggers, local indicator, elaboration in responses and task appropriate response were frequently used. As the application of CMD for teaching and learning is increasing, findings of this study could inform educators about the kind of strategies that could enrich online interaction.
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author Abdul Karim, Noor Mazni
Abdul Ghani, Rozina
Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail
author_facet Abdul Karim, Noor Mazni
Abdul Ghani, Rozina
Ahamad Shah, Mohamed Ismail
author_sort Abdul Karim, Noor Mazni
title Patterns of negotiation of meaning routine in online forum discussion
title_short Patterns of negotiation of meaning routine in online forum discussion
title_full Patterns of negotiation of meaning routine in online forum discussion
title_fullStr Patterns of negotiation of meaning routine in online forum discussion
title_full_unstemmed Patterns of negotiation of meaning routine in online forum discussion
title_sort patterns of negotiation of meaning routine in online forum discussion
publisher Universiti Putra Malaysia
publishDate 2017
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/62971/
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/62971/1/62971_Patterns%20of%20negotiation%20of%20meaning%20routine_article.pdf
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