The use of material resources in vocabulary explanations: A conversation analytic inquiry

Koç T., ERGÜL H.

Text and Talk, vol.44, no.2, pp.223-248, 2024 (AHCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 44 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2024
  • Doi Number: 10.1515/text-2021-0118
  • Journal Name: Text and Talk
  • Journal Indexes: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, ComAbstracts, Communication & Mass Media Index, Communication Abstracts, Index Islamicus, Linguistic Bibliography, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Sociological abstracts
  • Page Numbers: pp.223-248
  • Keywords: classroom discourse, conversation analysis, embodied resources, L2 classroom interaction, material resources, vocabulary explanations
  • Hacettepe University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

© 2023 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2023.Recent studies have examined the interactional management of verbal and non-verbal vocabulary explanations in second language (L2) classrooms. However, the use of material resources in vocabulary explanations has not been fully investigated yet. Based on a corpus of fourteen class-hours of (50-min each) video recordings of an L2 Oral Communication classroom at a higher education setting in Turkey, this study explores how material resources are employed in vocabulary explanation sequences in combination with talk and gestures. Using the micro-analytic lens of multimodal Conversation Analysis (CA) for the examination of the detailed transcriptions of vocabulary explanation sequences with material resources, three different patterns were identified: (1) gesture + material resources; (2) talk + gesture + material resources; and (3) scene enactment + material resources. The findings of this study contribute to classroom interaction research, more specifically to studies on vocabulary teaching, by providing a micro-analytic account of how material resources are employed in vocabulary explanations.