Instruction Giving in Online Language Lessons: A Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis - Paperback

by Müge Satar (Author), Ciara R. Wigham (Author)

This concise volume calls attention to the instruction-giving practices of language teachers in online environments, in particular videoconferencing, employing a Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis approach to explore the challenges, affordances, and pedagogical implications of teaching in these settings.

Author Biography

Mü ge Satar is Reader in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. She is interested in communicative and pedagogical aspects of multimodal interaction for online language learning and teaching, focusing on social presence and meaning-making. She is the co-editor of the Journal of Virtual Exchange and General Council member of UNICollaboration.

Ciara R. Wigham is Senior Lecturer in English Language Teaching at Université Clermont Auvergne . Her research interests include multimodal pedagogical communication in online language learning, teacher education in computer-assisted language learning, and methodologies for multimodal CMC corpora. She is a member of the the Activité, Connaissance, Transmission, éducation research laboratory.