You are cordially invited to the online research seminar organized by the Department of Educational Sciences.
Title: Using Conversation Analytic Research on Classroom Interaction in and for
Language Teacher Education: Focus on the DigiLTE Project
Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Ufuk Balaman
Date: Friday, 25 April 2025
Time: 16:30-17:30
This is an online seminar. To request event details please send a message to department.
Abstract:
Multimodal conversation analysis (CA) is now an established method for investigating second/foreign/additional (L2) language classroom interactions and documenting ‘how teachers use social interaction to facilitate learning’. In doing so, CA research is filling a research and practice gap in identifying classroom interactional practices that enable better managing L2 classrooms interactionally in a way to elicit rich learning outcomes. In this seminar, I will briefly introduce the methodological underpinnings of multimodal CA as a research methodology and present the practical implications of CA for L2 learning, teaching and teacher education. More specifically, I will talk about the details of the EU-funded DigiLTE (Digital Transformation of Language Teacher Education with Data-informed Evidence, 2023-2-TR01-KA220-HED-000184847) project. The main objective of the DigiLTE project is to digitally transform language teacher education practices by systematically drawing on data-informed evidence coming from the conversation analytic investigations into the real language classrooms. The DigiLTE project, therefore, sets out to create a video-based, digitally-enhanced, data-led, and evidence-based language teacher education environment for free and open use by (pre-service) language teachers and teacher educators.
Biodata:
Ufuk Balaman is an Associate Professor of English Language Education. Using conversation analysis as research methodology, he primarily deals with technology-mediated interaction for L2 learning, teaching and teacher education. His publications appeared in the top journals in the field. He is also the author of the recent monograph, “Conversation Analytic Language Teacher Education in Digital Spaces”, published by Palgrave/Springer. Visit his personal website (https://ubalaman.com/) for further info.