Collaborative Imagining: Academic Language Socialization for International Students through Disciplinary Language and Literacy Practices

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Abstract

Relatively little attention has been given to the learning of professional discourse in a second language (L2) and how L2 students’ professional communicative repertoires differ from those of their domestic peers. This study addresses these gaps by undertaking a semester-long video-based ethnographic study that focuses on desk critiques or repetitive one-to-one instructional conversations about student design. Using multimodal interaction analysis, I analyze a series of conversations where people configured diverse semiotic resources to communicate their imaginative design ideas. Preliminary findings illustrate how L2 students re-used instructor’s words and representational practices with transformation to make visible their design to their instructors.

Author

• Minseok Choi, The Ohio State University - Columbus