Word search sequences: exploring the embodiment in L2 interaction
Studies on face-to-face interactions have demonstrated how spoken language involves not only verbal but also mutual collaboration with the embodiment. The embodiment, such as gestures, can convey semantic content and can be a crucial point in a conversation (Hazel et al., 2014). In this study, I w...
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| Language: | English English |
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2017
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/71427/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/71427/20/71427%20WORD%20SEARCH%20SEQUENCES.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/71427/3/icop%20Nur%20word%20search%20in%20L2_for%20IREP.pdf |
| Summary: | Studies on face-to-face interactions have demonstrated how spoken language involves not only verbal but also
mutual collaboration with the embodiment. The embodiment, such as gestures, can convey semantic content
and can be a crucial point in a conversation (Hazel et al., 2014). In this study, I will investigate the embodiment
that includes gaze, head movement, gestures and body posture that are displayed in word search phenomenon
in L2 interaction. Word search is regarded as a type of repair in which the progressivity of the speaker’s turn is
momentarily ceased because the speaker encounters trouble in formulating the talk (Schegloff et al., 1977).
The setting of the study is non-educational where casual conversation among international university students
having dinner at a cafe is recorded. The study is also a multi-activity setting in which multi-party participants
are engaged in talking, eating and drinking. The participants, whom are L2 users, are from different countries
and most of them have different first language background. English is used as a form of communication as it is
the most common language that these international students resort to speaking with someone who has
different language background.
Using conversation analysis (CA), this study aims to explore how participants with different language expertise
exploit these embodied resources in word search sequences. In this presentation, the finding warrants the
following question of how L2 users organize participation through talk and embodiment in L2 interaction. A
detailed description of the embodied resources such as gaze shift, head movement, gesture and body posture
of both speaker and recipient will be discussed. Thus, these findings can enhance our understanding of how
participation in word search phenomenon is negotiated and coordinated through talk and embodiment in a
multi-party and multi-activity L2 interaction. |
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