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Interaction in the multilingual classroom
Lund University.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8686-9959
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Language, Literature and Intercultural Studies (from 2013). Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Center for Language and Literature in Education (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7286-1577
University of Oslo, Norway.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0511-4624
Lund University. (Centre for Languages and Literature)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2363-8969
2022 (English)In: The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Pragmatics / [ed] Istvan Kecskes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, p. 836-868Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Classroom language ecologies are increasingly diverse as a result of mobility, migration, and information technology. In these spaces, interlocutors may draw upon shared linguistic and cultural resources but also bring in others. Prime examples are additional-language (AL) classrooms, where there is a shared target language, but where students may have different first languages from their classmates and teacher. In this chapter, we review empirical research on interaction in multilingual classrooms in approaches such as ethnography, translanguaging, and conversation analysis (CA), and discuss methods and findings in relation to the growing field of intercultural pragmatics (IP). Additionally, we offer an empirical illustration from video ethnography research in multilingual English AL classrooms in Sweden. With a CA approach, we demonstrate how a group of students participating in a vocabulary game manage an instance of diverging understandings of an English word. We show how, in resolving this interactional trouble, participants draw on the target language English and the societal/school language Swedish, and we discuss the observations in light of the IP concepts of salience and common ground. Finally, we argue that classroom studies detailing social actors’ language repertoires by using audiovisual data are essential in advancing our understanding of multilingual AL classrooms.

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. p. 836-868
Keywords [en]
intercultural pragmatics, salience, common ground, conversation analysis, ethnography, interaction, multilingual, L2 English
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Specific Languages General Language Studies and Linguistics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-92146DOI: 10.1017/9781108884303.033ISBN: 9781108884303 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-92146DiVA, id: diva2:1701957
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MultiLingual Spaces - Language practices in English classrooms
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Swedish Research Council, 2016-03469Available from: 2022-10-07 Created: 2022-10-07 Last updated: 2022-11-24Bibliographically approved

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