MIND (Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics) Research Group

Conversation analysis and language teacher education: Intervention studies Published in Language and Education (Ahead of Print, 2025)

A review of our book "Conversation analysis and language teacher education: Intervention studies" (with Prof Hansun Waring, @teacherscollege.bsky.social ) is now out in Language and Education! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

An article about a MIND project conducted by our researchers Mika Ishino and Olcay Sert: Bridging Educational Cultures Through Classroom Interaction:
A Tele­collaboration Project Between Sweden and Japan www.pedagogmalardalen.se/pedagog/reda... @sertolcay.bsky.social @mika-ishino.bsky.social

Building affiliation in the L2 classroom: the role of side sequences Previous conversation analytic (CA) studies have explored how affiliation is created in L2 classrooms. This study adds to the research by documenting the opportunities for creating affiliative mome...

The final article of the new issue, by Tianfang Wang and her colleagues, is on the role of side sequences in building affiliation in the L2 classroom www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Online intercultural exchange in language teacher education: interactional resources for topic transition Topic management is under-explored in language learning, teaching and testing settings. It may pose particular challenges in online intercultural exchanges (OIE) or virtual exchange (VE) because of...

The 4th article, by Müge Satar and Betül Ç,menli Olcars, is on interactional resources for topic transition during online intercultural exchange in a language teacher education context www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 👇

Dialogic interaction between young writers: spontaneous vs. structured collaboration The aim of this study was to compare different collaborative (spontaneous and structured) story writing practices in a sample of 50 sixth graders students (11–12 years old). For the spontaneous syn...

In the 3rd article, M. Montanero et al. investigate spontaneous vs. structured collaboration in dialogic interaction between young writers www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 👇

Less talk, more action? Exploring proficiency scores and embodied resources in online L2 interactions This mixed-methods study explores Embodied Resources (ERs) in an online, triadic task involving 52 candidates within the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) B2˗C1 range of l...

The second article, by Nicholas Glasson & Katherine Halley, explores proficiency scores and embodied resources in online L2 interactions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 👇

Pursuing student response through incomplete syntax, prosody, bodily- and visuo-orthographical resources in Chinese-as-a-second-language classrooms This study investigates how teachers use designedly incomplete utterances (DIUs) and other multimodal resources to pursue student responses to their questions to accomplish particular pedagogical t...

Volume 16, Issue 3 of Classroom Discourse is now out! The first article, by Xiaoyun Wang, Xiaoting Li & Shui Li, explores how teachers use DIUs & other multimodal resources to pursue student responses to their questions in Chinese as a second language classrooms www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 👇

A video summary of the article published by MIND members @sertolcay.bsky.social & @mika-ishino.bsky.social 👇

Conversation analysis and language teacher education: Intervention studies Published in Classroom Discourse (Ahead of Print, 2025)

A review (by Eunseok Ro) of "Conversation analysis and language teacher education: Intervention studies" (eds. Olcay Sert and Hansun Zhang Waring) is now out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... @sertolcay.bsky.social @lansi2024.bsky.social #intervention #EMCA #classroom #teacher #education

The 4th MIND mini-symposium will take place at Mälardalen University on November 20, 2025. The theme of our symposium this year is “Beyond the binary of progressive vs. formal: interactional research on learning and teaching on the way to hybrid intelligence”. mindresearchgroup.org/2025/10/02/t...

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Data Sessions MIND Data sessions: Autumn 2025 MIND Data sessions: Spring 2025 13 February, 13:15-14:45 Tuğba Özdemir (Hacettepe University) “Learning two senses ‘cold-blooded’” U3-104 (Västerås) also Teams …

In our next MIND data session (Thursday, 2 October, 13:15-CET), we will welcome Teppo Jakonen (University of Turku, Finland) with his study:"Interacting in L2 #Finnish with a #virtual patient in an immersive virtual reality nursing #simulation". mindresearchgroup.org/data-sessions/ Wanna attend? 👇

Collaborative Noticing of Multimodality in Language Classroom Interaction: A Telecollaboration Project Between Student‐Teachers of English in Sweden and Japan Telecollaboration in pre-service teacher education promotes intercultural communicative competence and bridges knowledge and practice. Although a growing body of studies has addressed the affordances...

#openaccess: Collaborative Noticing of #Multimodality in Language #Classroom #Interaction: A Telecollaboration Project Between Student‐Teachers of #English in Sweden and Japan - @sertolcay.bsky.social & @mika-ishino.bsky.social - 2025 - TESOL Journal - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #EMCA

YouTube video by Education & Communication Learning to Respond to Student Utterances During a Classroom Interaction Course in Sweden

Kajsa Lind (Jensen High School) & I wrote a retrospective analysis of her learning journey after she completed my classroom interaction course & graduated from our teacher education program. We have a video-pod that summarizes our study: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xr6.... The link to the article is 👇

Data Sessions MIND Data sessions: Autumn 2025 MIND Data sessions: Spring 2025 13 February, 13:15-14:45 Tuğba Özdemir (Hacettepe University) “Learning two senses ‘cold-blooded’” U3-104 (Västerås) also Teams …

Our next MIND data session is on 25 September, 13:15 (CET) Mika Ishino (Doshisha University)&Aya Watanabe (Fukui Prefectural Uni.) will present data from L2 young learners' classrooms. The session takes place in hybrid mode, in U3-083 (Västerås) and on Teams: mindresearchgroup.org/data-sessions/

Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education This volume brings together studies that document practice-based changes in which conversation analysis plays a role.

Our edited volume (w/ Hansun Waring, Teachers College, Columbia University) "Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education: Intervention Studies" is now out! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #CA #EMCA #teachereducation #teaching #interaction #classroom

How much time do we have? On Countdown timers in Japanese schools and the first week of my “minigration” to Japan Sensei Naoko puts a digital countdown timer on the board. Sets it to 40 seconds. All pupils stand up: it is time to practice, in pairs, the months in English. One of the students says 2月, the other…

How much time do we have? On Countdown timers in Japanese schools and the first week of my “minigration” to Japan olcaysert.net/2025/07/21/h... #Japan #time #minigration #school #teaching #learning

Teachers’ responses in student-initiated question sequences during between-desk interactions in EFL project work A defining feature of project-based English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classrooms is teachers’ routine circulation between desks to answer students’ …

A new #openaccess article, published in Linguistics and Education, by our researchers @marwaamri.bsky.social & @sertolcay.bsky.social: "Teachers’ responses in student-initiated question sequences during between-desk interactions in #EFL project work" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #CA

Classroom Discourse Analyzing educational interactions: exploring the methodological breadth. Volume 16, Issue 2 of Classroom Discourse

A new SI of Classroom Discourse is now out!:"Analyzing educational interactions: exploring the methodological breadth" www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcdi20/1.... The issue features qualitative &quantitative studies that showcase methodologies & the use of empirical data to analyse classroom discourse /0👇

SAVE THE DATE: The next Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2) Conference will be held at Newcastle University 24-26 August 2026. Please watch this space for details on plenary speakers, workshops, the call for papers and more! 😃

Designing for Computational Collaboration: Using a Storyboard Educational Design to Scaffold Collaborative Coding for Childhood Education constructionism.oapublishing.ch/index.php/co...

Achieving Joint Attention and Understanding of Task Responsibilities in Synchronous Hybrid L2 Classroom Group Work Abstract. This article addresses the need to better understand interactional asymmetries, challenges, and solutions in implementing synchronous hybrid lang

Our article (w/ Teppo Jakonen & Heidi Jauni ) on joint attention in #hybrid L2 #classroom group work has now been assigned to an issue in Applied Linguistics: academic.oup.com/applij/artic...

AI-powered question detection tools like Question Bot (QBot) show promising potential for enhancing teacher reflection and professional development... AI-powered question detection tools like Question Bot (QBot) show promising potential for enhancing teacher reflection and professional development, with student-teachers reporting it helps them notic...

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Partnering with AI in teacher education? Using an automatic question detection tool to reflect on classroom interaction In this paper, I investigate a group of student-teachers’ insights into an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered automatic question-detection tool designed for reflective practice: Question Bot (QBo...

It has been eye opening for me to listen to the perspectives of student-teachers on their use of an AI tool for #reflective #practice: Partnering with #AI in #teacher #education? Using an automatic question detection tool to reflect on #classroom #interaction: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Repairing problems of acceptability in pre-task interaction In task-based language teaching methodology, one way to familiarise learners with the upcoming task is through question-and-answer sequences that target task-relevant topics. In such instances, lea...

New article out! Repairing problems of acceptability in pre-task interaction (by David Shimamoto, Kobe University, Japan) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'But I don’t know, she might actually ask?' Detecting sources of self-efficacy and conditions fostering collective teacher efficacy by analysing transcribed panel and group discussions Asking questions is essential for learning and socialisation. However, students with intellectual disability who have severe speech and language disorder (i.e. aided-speaking students) seldom get t...

Hot off the press by our very own Helena Tegler: 'But I don’t know, she might actually ask?' Detecting sources of self-efficacy and conditions fostering collective teacher efficacy by analysing transcribed panel and group discussions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #CARM @lizstokoe.bsky.social

MIND research group Data Session-8 May, 13:15-14:45 (CET)
Zeynep Önder (Hacettepe Uni) & Stephen D. Looney (The Pennsylvania State University): Pronunciation Teaching in EFL Classroom Interaction. U3-104 (Västerås) and Teams (contact @mervebozbiyik.bsky.social) mindresearchgroup.org/data-sessions/

Getting out of the comfort zone, again? On our AI-Write project, Limerick, and the future of higher education (in Europe) We are living in the times when at least half of the LinkedIn users1, AI-influencers, or people you barely know are telling you to get out of your comfort zone, before you have had enough time to s…

Getting out of the comfort zone, again? On our AI-Write project, Limerick, and the future of higher education (in Europe) olcaysert.net/2025/05/02/g... #AI #artificial #intelligence #teacher #education #teaching #learning #highereducation #English #language #Limerick @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Get in touch with @mervebozbiyik.bsky.social (merve.bozbiyik[at]mdu.se) to participate in our next data session. See you on Thursday at 13:15 (CET)!

mindresearchgroup.org/data-sessions/ @katherina-walper.bsky.social

Delighted to have this as part of our SI on technology in language teacher education. Two fabulous papers already published in the SI and more on the way. Watch this space! Many thanks to @sertolcay.bsky.social et al. for being part of it.