Ufuk Balaman is the coordinator of the DigiLTE project. He is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the department of English Language Education at TED University, Türkiye. Using conversation analysis as research methodology, he primarily deals with technology-mediated interaction for L2 learning, teaching and teacher education. Visit his personal website for further info.
In the next TED University Conversation Analysis Research Group seminar, Søren Eskildsen will deliver a talk entitled “L2 Learning in the Grammar-Body-Materiality Interface”. The seminar is sponsored by the DigiLTE project and part of the forthcoming Transnational Meeting of the DigiLTE project (23-25 October, 2024). Dr. Eskildsen will participate in the meeting after the TEDU-CAN seminar as an invited expert/external advisor and bring new insights into the project activities with his expertise in L2 interaction research.
Join us on Tuesday, 22nd of October 2024 to explore Dr. Eskildsen’s recent work.
We are very happy to be hosting Simon Stewart at TEDU CAN for a series of events on 16th of July (face-2-face data sessions) and 18th of July (hybrid seminar), 2024. See the event flyer below.
Here is the bio of Dr. Stewart:
Simon is a lecturer in psychology with substantial prior experience in industries including local authorities and third sector organisations. He completed his BSc Psychology with the Open University, before gaining an MSc in Clinical and Health Research Methods at the University of Southampton as part of an ESRC funded MSc + PhD programme. Following this, he completed his PhD in October 2021.
Simon’s PhD included specialist training in Conversation Analysis at UCLA during the autumn semester of 2019. His thesis is a conversation analytic study of multi-party interactions comprising a patient, their partner, and a healthcare professional during clinical consultations for prostate cancer.
Simon’s research interests span domains of social, developmental, and health psychology. His current research focuses on the application of conversation analysis to better understand and improve communication in health and social care settings such as communication during clinical consultations, or family and practitioner interactions during therapeutic interventions.
Sex and the Clinic: Taking about sex during oncology consultations
Abstract
There are several cancers that can substantially impact a person’s sex life and their sexual relationships. This means that the sexual impact of these cancers is an important topic to discuss during clinical consultations. As part of a broader project proposal, this seminar will offer an overview of the current research landscape into talking about sex in clinical settings, it will identify the problems and questions to be addressed and offer an example of some conversation analytical research that examines how the sexual impact of localised prostate cancer is communicated to couples across four clinical sites in the UK.
Using Conversation Analysis in Classroom Interaction Research
Dr. Nilüfer Can Daşkın
Classroom interaction research has a long history and has been carried out from various perspectives. Whereas earlier studies of classroom interaction focused on the observation and description of interaction using coding schemes, the later ones brought psycholinguistics, sociolinguistic, sociocultural and interactional perspectives to the study of classroom interaction. As part of the interactional approach, the use of Conversation Analysis (CA) as a research methodology in classroom interaction studies has gained momentum with a growing body of research offering findings and implications based on real naturally- occurring classroom practices. It is now acknowledged that meanings and actions are co- constructed in and through the interaction of the participants and understanding the actual dynamics of classrooms is possible through the analysis of the micro-details of classroom talk-in-interaction. As a methodology that requires a micro-analysis of naturally occurring data on a turn-by-turn basis in a sequential environment from an emic perspective, CA can potentially reveal the complexity of classroom interaction and the instructional practices which may create learning opportunities and construct micro-moments of understanding. Against this background, in this seminar, I aim to describe and demonstrate the steps involved in conducting conversation analytic classroom interaction research with examples from existing research: data collection, producing transcriptions, reviewing the research literature, collection building, doing the analysis and eventually publishing the findings. The steps involved in such research is not linear and requires a circular and recursive process for doing robust analysis and offering empirical findings.
Here is an announcement about the future of Micro Analysis Network. First of all, I would like to thank you all for following us almost for a decade, contributing to our activities, and participating in our events. Thanks to your endless support, our research group, originally started by Olcay Sert, Safinaz Büyükgüzel, and myself and later continued by Nilüfer Can Daşkın, Nergiz Kardaş İşler, Devran Demir, Fatma Badem and myself, has managed to disseminate Conversation Analytic research in Türkiye and helped a great number of researchers produce groundbreaking research in different fields of inquiry. I would also like to thank all research group members for their efforts and time that made Micro Analysis Network a leading group for so many years.
Unlike what might have been implied above, this is not a farewell message 🙂
We are happy to announce that Micro Analysis Network is being TED University Conversation Analysis Research Group (TEDU CAN) and will continue its activities at TED University. Therefore, effective immediately, this email list, website, and Twitter/X accounts will use the “TEDU CAN” as the institutional/group name. TEDU CAN will organize seminars, courses, data sessions, reading groups, and many other activities. Using this semester as the interim period for the merge, we will not be releasing calls for data sessions. However, we will organize a Launch Event (see the event flyer above), an invited seminar and possibly hold a few in-house, face-to-face data sessions. From next semester onwards, we will be operating at full capacity with a diverse array of activities.
In concluding, I would like to kindly invite you to the TEDU CAN Launch Event (joint event with the DigiLTE project launch) and to follow updates from our research group (https://can.tedu.edu.tr/). Please explore the new website in addition to earlier communication channels (blog & Twitter).
We are organizing 6 online CA data sessions in the 2023 fall (October-January) semester. The sessions will be held online at Zoom on Wednesdays at 15:00. Check out the flyer for details and follow us for weekly reminders of the meeting links.
Micro Analysis Network will organize online CA data sessions for the 2023-2024 Fall semester (October-December). All sessions will be held online (via Zoom) on Wednesdays from 15:00 (GMT+3) onwards. We have 5 available slots. Please choose two dates you would like to hold the session latest by the 1st of October and we will announce the schedule shortly.
If you are interested in organizing a session, please click on the link below and choose 2 dates that are available for you, and we will do our best to fit you into one of the selected slots.
We are organizing 8 online CA data sessions in the 2023 spring (March-May) semester. The sessions will be held online at Zoom on Wednesdays at 15:00. Check out the flyer for details and follow us for weekly reminders of the meeting links.
We are pleased to announce that Micro Analysis Network will organize online CA data sessions for the 2022-2023 Spring semester (March-May). All sessions will be held online (via Zoom) on Wednesdays from 15:00 (GMT+3) onwards. We have 8 available slots.
If you are interested in organizing a session, please click on the link below and choose 2 dates by the 1st of March, and we will do our best to fit you into one of the selected slots.
We are organizing 10 online CA data sessions in the 2022 Fall (October-January) semester. The sessions will be held online at Zoom on Wednesdays at 15:00 (GMT +3). Check out the flyer for details and follow us for weekly reminders of the meeting links.
We are pleased to announce that Micro Analysis Network will organize online CA data sessions for the 2022-2023 Fall semester (October-January). All sessions will be held online (via Zoom) on Wednesdays from 15:00 onwards. We have 6 available slots. Please choose two dates you would like to hold the session latest by the 7th of October and we will announce the schedule subsequently.
TEDU CAN - TED University Conversation ANalysis Research Group 