Doing second language learning in the wild

The focus of this study is to investigate what do international students do ‘in the wild’, that is, in a mundane, everyday, out-of-classroom second language talk. In face-to-face interactions, spoken language involves not only verbal but also a mutual collaboration with other non-linguistics resourc...

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Main Authors:	Abdullah, Nur Nabilah, Sahar, Rafidah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2018
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General) L Education (General) PE English
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/69395/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/69395/1/MICOLLAC%20Schedule%202018.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/69395/8/Slide%20Presentation_Doing%20second%20language%20learning%20in%20the%20wild.pdf

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spelling	iium-693952019-04-02T01:27:27Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/69395/ Doing second language learning in the wild Abdullah, Nur Nabilah Sahar, Rafidah H Social Sciences (General) L Education (General) PE English The focus of this study is to investigate what do international students do ‘in the wild’, that is, in a mundane, everyday, out-of-classroom second language talk. In face-to-face interactions, spoken language involves not only verbal but also a mutual collaboration with other non-linguistics resources, such as gaze, gestures and bodily behaviour (Goodwin, 1981). This study aims to add to the growing body of second language (L2) research which goes ‘beyond the language classroom’, outside educational settings (Firth and Wagner, 1997; Wagner, 2004) particularly among L2 speakers who do not share the first language. The data for this study consists of casual conversation among international university students having dinner at a cafe which is video-recorded. Using conversation analysis or sometimes referred to as ‘CA-SLA’ (Kasper and Wagner, 2011), this study aims to explore how participants with different language background exploit language and other non-linguistic resources in second language talk outside of educational settings. The findings from the investigation suggest that talk, gaze and gestures as coordinated interactional resources in creating opportunities in L2 learning. The learning sequences in the L2 interaction is framed around repair activities and word searches. By analysing the repair and word search sequences, we demonstrate how participants draw on language and non-linguistic resources for understanding (Seo, 2011) and opportunity for L2 learning can take place outside a classroom environment (Firth and Wagner, 1997). 2018-08-14 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/69395/1/MICOLLAC%20Schedule%202018.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/69395/8/Slide%20Presentation_Doing%20second%20language%20learning%20in%20the%20wild.pdf Abdullah, Nur Nabilah and Sahar, Rafidah (2018) Doing second language learning in the wild. In: 10th Malaysia International Conference on Languages, Literatures and Cultures, 14th - 16th August 2018, Hatten Hotel, Malacca. (Unpublished)
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description	The focus of this study is to investigate what do international students do ‘in the wild’, that is, in a mundane, everyday, out-of-classroom second language talk. In face-to-face interactions, spoken language involves not only verbal but also a mutual collaboration with other non-linguistics resources, such as gaze, gestures and bodily behaviour (Goodwin, 1981). This study aims to add to the growing body of second language (L2) research which goes ‘beyond the language classroom’, outside educational settings (Firth and Wagner, 1997; Wagner, 2004) particularly among L2 speakers who do not share the first language. The data for this study consists of casual conversation among international university students having dinner at a cafe which is video-recorded. Using conversation analysis or sometimes referred to as ‘CA-SLA’ (Kasper and Wagner, 2011), this study aims to explore how participants with different language background exploit language and other non-linguistic resources in second language talk outside of educational settings. The findings from the investigation suggest that talk, gaze and gestures as coordinated interactional resources in creating opportunities in L2 learning. The learning sequences in the L2 interaction is framed around repair activities and word searches. By analysing the repair and word search sequences, we demonstrate how participants draw on language and non-linguistic resources for understanding (Seo, 2011) and opportunity for L2 learning can take place outside a classroom environment (Firth and Wagner, 1997).
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Abdullah, Nur Nabilah Sahar, Rafidah
author_facet	Abdullah, Nur Nabilah Sahar, Rafidah
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title	Doing second language learning in the wild
title_short	Doing second language learning in the wild
title_full	Doing second language learning in the wild
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publishDate	2018
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