Tim Greer reports on SWELL presentations at the 2023 ICCA conference.
The SWELL team recently presented some of our findings at the International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA 2023) in Brisbane Australia.
We organized two panels in order facilitate discussion between CA researchers working in similar contexts.
On Friday 30 June, Rue Burch and Eric Hauser convened a panel on Interaction in Innovative Institutional Contexts, which included two presentations from the SWELL data set (TGG and the Cooking data). This panel considered non-traditional learning environments and how they shape (and are shaped by) the interaction that goes on there.
The presentations looked at how people organized their interaction as they orient to new or modified norms and how aspects of their interactional identities become relevant in such contexts. They also considered how norms from other institutional contexts can get imported and whether restrictions on the interactions can be successfully overcome.
On Sunday 2 July, Tim Greer and Zachary Nanbu organized a panel entitled Enriching the Wild: L2 Interaction in Virtual, Augmented and Simulated Settings. Presenters considered L2 interaction in a range of simulated settings, from role-play talk to digitally augmented game settings beyond the classroom. The SWELL team contributed two presentations, one on how objects and gestures are used in role-play tasks at TGG, and the other on how co-presence is managed and subverted during VR classes.
Both panels generated a good deal of fruitful discussion among their audiences and we were glad to have the opportunity to contribute to scholarship within the field of CA-SLA.