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In our next data session, Maria Vanessa aus der Wieschen (University of Southern Denmark) will present an extract from her corpus of English as a Foreign Language  in Danish young learner classroom interactions. The session will take place in the meeting room of HUMAN Research Centre on the 24^th of March, Thursday at 3:00 p.m.

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Bir sonraki veri oturumumuzda, University of Southern Denmark doktora öğrencilerinden Maria Vanessa aus der Wieschen, “Danimarkalı Çocuklara Yabancı Dil Olarak İngilizce Öğretimi Sınıfları” veritabanından bir kesit sunacaktır. Oturumumuz 24 Mart Perşembe günü HUMAN Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi toplantı odasında saat 15:00’da gerçekleşecektir.

The third reading group meeting of the semester will be held next week on the 22nd of March, Tuesday at 15:30 in the meeting room of HUMAN Research Centre. We will discuss another seminal work by Heritage (2012) on epistemics in interaction. Heritage (2012) published two papers in the same issue of the “Research on Language and Social Interaction” journal. The first one framed epistemics for action formation, while the second conceptualised what Heritage termed as epistemic engine. Unlike previous meetings, we expect the participants to read both papers.

Heritage, J. (2012). Epistemics in action: Action formation and territories of knowledge. Research on Language & Social Interaction, 45(1), 1-29.

Heritage, J. (2012). The epistemic engine: Sequence organization and territories of knowledge. Research on Language & Social Interaction, 45(1), 30-52.

For the structure of reading group meetings (2015), see the list below:

We will start the reading group by summarising the articles, followed by an in-depth discussion of them.

Additionally, you may want to do some of the following in order to prepare for the discussion:

• Write down any questions you may have about the articles

• Find one or more passages that you find interesting

• Think about how the points presented in the articles relate to other theories or to your own research

• Choose the paper you agree with the most, then pretend to be the devil’s advocate and criticize the authors’ viewpoints

The second reading group meeting of the semester will be held next week on the 8th of March, Tuesday at 15:30 in the meeting room of HUMAN Research Centre. Following the lively discussion we had last week on the systematics of turn-taking, we will read and discuss another seminal work, from Heritage (1997) on institutional talk and conversation analysis.

Heritage, J. (1997).Conversation analysis and institutional talk: analyzing data. In David Silverman (ed.) Qualitative Research: Theory, Method and Practice. London: Sage: 161-182.

For the structure of reading group meetings (2015), see the list below:

We will start the reading group by summarising the articles, followed by an in-depth discussion of them.

Additionally, you may want to do some of the following in order to prepare for the discussion:

• Write down any questions you may have about the articles

• Find one or more passages that you find interesting

• Think about how the points presented in the articles relate to other theories or to your own research

• Choose the paper you agree with the most, then pretend to be the devil’s advocate and criticize the authors’ viewpoints

HUMAN Research Centre and University of Southern Denmark partners in a networking project funded by Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation. The project aims to contribute to theory and practice development in early English language teaching and teacher training programs. Based on Conversation Analysis methodology, the project partners will scrutinise the practices in early English languge teaching and learning, English teachers’ orientation to the availability in society, and how any differences between Denmark and Turkey in the availability of English in society may affect English teaching and the training of English teachers. Three workshops (two in Turkey, one in Denmark) will be organised for the development of project outputs and planning of future collaborations.

In the first reading group of the semester, we will read, examine, and discuss theclassic/masterpiece work in Conversation Analysis literature; “A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation” by Harvey Sacks, Emmanuel Schegloff, and Gail Jefferson  (1974). The meeting will be held in the meeting room of HUMAN Research Centre, on the 23rd of February, 15:30. Click the abstract of the article below to get access or contact me at ubalaman[at]gmail.com.

You may also find the details (2015) below useful for the structure of reading group meetings.

We will start the reading group by summarizing the articles, followed by an in-depth discussion of them.

Additionally, you may want to do some of the following in order to prepare for the discussion:

• Write down any questions you may have about the articles

• Find one or more passages that you find interesting

• Think about how the points presented in the articles relate to other theories or to your own research

• Choose the paper you agree with the most, then pretend to be the devil’s advocate and criticize the authors’ viewpoints