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Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? No. No it can't. Come on, now.

A great read. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

Higher Seminar, 20 February, 2026: Marwa Amri – Doing project work in the English language classroom On the 20th of February, 2026 (13:15: 15:00, CET), our very own Marwa Amri will have her final seminar (slutseminarium) in her PhD studies in Educational Sciences at Mälardalen University. Marwa ha…

Our very own @marwaamri.bsky.social will have her final seminar (slutseminarium) in her PhD studies in Educational Sciences at Mälardalen University on the 20th of February at Mälardalen University, Västerås (Ypsilon). mindresearchgroup.org/2026/01/28/h...

MIND data sessions programme for spring 2026 is now out! For more on the activities of Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics research group, please visit mindresearchgroup.org. If you want to attend our data sessions, send an email to @mervebozbiyik.bsky.social merve.bozbiyik@mdu.se. Spread the word!

Our forthcoming AI-in-Education seminar (AI@MDU) at Mälardalen University. --> Benjamin Luke Moorhouse: “Developing Guidance and Policies for Generative AI: A design framework and process”. 23 February, 09:15-10:45 (CET). Free registration: lnkd.in/dwcUhE_3

Navigating grammar explanations in online pedagogical interaction: a sequential account Research on grammar pedagogy has shed much light on the effectiveness of different types of instruction (e.g. explicit vs. implicit, focus on form vs. focus on forms, etc.), but how grammar is expl...

New article out! Navigating grammar explanations in online pedagogical interaction: a sequential account (by Mark Romig) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @lansi2024.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social

An exploratory study on secondary teachers’ conceptualisation of the cognitive discourse function ‘define’ and its scaffolding in classroom interaction This exploratory study examines how content and language teachers conceptualise the cognitive discourse function (CDF) define, and presents the scaffolding strategies they propose to overcome poten...

New article out! An exploratory study on secondary teachers’ conceptualisation of the cognitive discourse function ‘define’ and its scaffolding in classroom interaction (by Eneritz Garro Larrañaga, Amaia Lersundi & Karmele Perez-Lizarralde) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Participation and language learning opportunities: a case study of two adult Iranian English learners from a positioning theory perspective This study explores the influence of classroom positioning practices on learner participation and their access to learning opportunities in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting. Drawing o...

New article out! Participation and language learning opportunities: a case study of two adult Iranian English learners from a positioning theory perspective (by Fateme Salehi-Amiri & Mohammad R. Hashemi) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Storytelling in history classrooms: moving through historical empathy and analysis This study investigates how oral storytelling in history classrooms can foster historical understanding by engaging students both emotionally and analytically. Drawing on classroom observations and...

New #openaccess article out! Storytelling in history classrooms: moving through historical empathy and analysis (by Björn Kindenberg) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Designing and negotiating proposals in collaborative storytelling: interactional organisation of decision-making among autistic and non-autistic students This study investigates how a group of three fifth-grade students – one autistic and two non-autistic – collaboratively create a fictional story through proposals and joint decisions. The video-rec...

New article out! Designing and negotiating proposals in collaborative storytelling: interactional organisation of decision-making among autistic and non-autistic students (by Anniina Kämäräinen, Katja Dindar, Eija Kärnä & Anni Kilpiä) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Phonemic handshape isolation in ASL vocabulary instruction With the growing body of sign language research across linguistic fields, there remains a sizeable gap in the area of cross-modality sign language instruction, particularly in the field of conversa...

New article out! Phonemic handshape isolation in American Sign Language #ASL vocabulary instruction, by Alyson Horan @lansi2024.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nu kör vi! The 4th MIND (Mälardalen Interaction and Didactics) mini-symposium! mindresearchgroup.org/symposia/ @mindresearchgroup.bsky.social @marwaamri.bsky.social @mervebozbiyik.bsky.social

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

📚 New Book Review Alert! ✨

Conversation analysis and language teacher education: Intervention studies: Language and Education: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A good read on reflective practice and generative AI, written by two important scholars in our field (Kenan Dikilitaş and Thomas Farrell): "Using ChatGPT as a “Friend” in reflective critical friendships" doi.org/10.1093/elt/... @kenandklts.bsky.social

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📣 Mälardalen university are launching a brand new master’s programme in political science at Mälardalen University: Master’s in Politics and Sustainable Societies.

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....

A piece published in Pedagog Mälardalen on our telecollaboration project w/ @mika-ishino.bsky.social: Bridging Educational Cultures Through Classroom Interaction:
A Tele­collaboration Project Between Sweden & Japan sites.mdu.se/pedagog/reda...
På svenska: www.pedagogmalardalen.se/pedagog/reda...

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.... 👇

Oral interaction patterns in work-related activities in teaching and interviews for language practice placements: L2 teaching for adults in Sweden This study explores oral interaction in work-related activities within adult second-language (L2) education in Sweden, specifically in the context of Swedish for Immigrants (SFI). Drawing on data f...

New #openaccess article out! Oral interaction patterns in work-related activities in teaching and interviews for language practice placements: L2 teaching for adults in Sweden (by Robert Walldén & Åsa Wedin) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Children’s multilingual sensemaking practices: an analysis of small-group intercomprehension activities This paper presents a study conducted in an Italian primary school involving 21 students exposed to multilingual pedagogies for 5 years. The multilingual class represents nine languages in addition...

New article out! Children’s multilingual sensemaking practices: an analysis of small-group intercomprehension activities (by Chiara Facciani) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

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Apply to @TeachersCollege and soak up the rich intellectual environment! #WhyColumbiaALTESOL www.tc.columbia.edu/arts-and-hum...

Dear colleagues,

The fifth ICOP-L2 Conference will be held at Newcastle University 24-26 Aug. 2026. Abstract submissions will open 21 November 2025 until 20 February 2026.
Please take a look at the conference website for more detail and the latest information:
conferences.ncl.ac.uk/icop-l2-26/

YouTube video by Education & Communication Collaborative Noticing of Multimodality in Language Classroom Interaction

A video presentation (generated by NotebookLM) of "Collaborative Noticing of Multimodality in Language Classroom Interaction: A telecollaboration project between student-teachers of English in Sweden and Japan" (w/ @mika-ishino.bsky.social) youtu.be/Nu8hxS_OKrc?... . #TESOL #telecollaboration #CA

The first review of our book (with Hansun Waring) "Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education - Intervention Studies" is now out! @lansi2024.bsky.social @mika-ishino.bsky.social @ubalaman.bsky.social @mervebozbiyik.bsky.social

“Huh?” “Good!”: teaching conversational repair in introductory L2 classrooms Over the past decade, a growing effort has been made toward the practical application of findings and insights from Conversation Analysis (CA) in second language (L2) teaching, with the goal of bet...

New #openaccess article! “Huh?” “Good!”: teaching conversational repair in introductory #L2 classrooms (by Michiko Kaneyasu, University of California) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pre-service teachers´ interaction with students manifested in speech turns– a case study of interaction and acoustic analyses In the classroom, teacher-student interaction has a vital role in learning. Interaction is constructed by interpersonal communication consisting of verbal and non-verbal communication. When analysi...

New #openaccess article out! Pre-service #teachers´ interaction with students manifested in speech turns– a case study of #interaction and #acoustic analyses (by Kati Järvinen, Anna-Leena Kähkönen, Pasi Nieminen & Terhi Mäntylä - University of Jyväskylä) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....