Klara Skogmyr Marian

I utbildningen till lärare ingår att producera ett självständigt arbete, ofta kallat examensarbete. Detta innebär att man som student ska genomföra en mindre vetenskaplig undersökning för att på ett konkret och praktiskt sätt få insikt i hur ny kunskap blir till genom forskning och hur den kan prövas och granskas vad gäller teori, metod och resultat. Syftet med denna antologi är att komplettera förekommande metodlitteratur med konkreta exempel på hur undersökningar inom språk- och litteraturdidaktik kan genomföras. Boken består, förutom ett inledande kapitel som beskriver den principiella gången i en empirisk undersökning, av elva kapitel som presenterar olika exempelundersökningar. Dessa bygger på faktiska studier som författarna tidigare gjort, men som här anpassats till vad man kan förvänta sig av ett examensarbete. Sammantagna ger kapitlen en god bild av de forskningsområden, teorier och metoder som är aktuella inom den språk- och litteraturdidaktiska forskningen. Examensarbete i språk- och litteraturdidaktik vänder sig till lärarstuderande i ämnena svenska, svenska som andraspråk eller något av de främmande språken.

This book presents unique insights into the development of L2 interactional competence through the lens of complaining, demonstrating how a closer study of complaining as a social activity can enhance our understanding of certain aspects of language learning with implications for future L2 research. The volume employs a multimodal, longitudinal conversation analytic (CA) approach in its analysis of data from video-recorded interactions of several elementary and advanced L2 speakers of French as they build their interactional competence, understood as the ability to accomplish social actions and activities in the L2 in context-dependent and recipient-designed ways. Skogmyr Marian calls attention to three key dimensions of complaining in these conversations – its structural organization, the interactional resources people use when they complain, and how speakers’ shared interactional histories and changing social relationships affect complaint practices. The volume underscores the fundamentally multimodal, socially situated, and co-constructed nature of L2 interactional competence and the socialization processes involved in its development, indicating paths for new work on interactional competence and L2 research more broadly. This book will be of appeal to students and scholars interested in second language acquisition, social interaction, and applied linguistics. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

This book presents unique insights into the development of L2 interactional competence through the lens of complaining, demonstrating how a closer study of complaining as a social activity can enhance our understanding of certain aspects of language learning with implications for future L2 research. The volume employs a multimodal, longitudinal conversation analytic (CA) approach in its analysis of data from video-recorded interactions of several elementary and advanced L2 speakers of French as they build their interactional competence, understood as the ability to accomplish social actions and activities in the L2 in context-dependent and recipient-designed ways. Skogmyr Marian calls attention to three key dimensions of complaining in these conversations – its structural organization, the interactional resources people use when they complain, and how speakers’ shared interactional histories and changing social relationships affect complaint practices. The volume underscores the fundamentally multimodal, socially situated, and co-constructed nature of L2 interactional competence and the socialization processes involved in its development, indicating paths for new work on interactional competence and L2 research more broadly. This book will be of appeal to students and scholars interested in second language acquisition, social interaction, and applied linguistics. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.