William Owens
I'm deeply embroiled in my Ph.D. thesis at present, using conversation analysis to uncover how two participants in a 1-1 online English class orient to one another and to what they're doing in different ways and at different moments to co-construct very personalised and specific learning spaces from the building-blocks of conversation. I don't honestly fully know what that means, nor do I know how to do it, so it's taking a long time. I'm interested in ELF and world Englishes, conversation analysis, teacher training/education and professional development, and teacher psychology. I'm currently considering post-graduation career directions.
Sessions
My Student Just Wants to Chat! Are They Learning Anything?
This is a presentation of my own research into online 1:1 general-purpose speaking classes with adults. I'll present a few recorded extracts of moments when a correction or repair-initiation was launched and encountered trouble. First, we'll analyze these extracts through a traditional SLA lens and then analyze the same extracts through a more social/ethnomethodological lens (as is the trend in many journals these days), compare the findings, and consider which approach is more relevant to different contexts.