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Ethnography of Multimodal Communication: An English-Mediated University Classroom Interaction Analysis
Etnografía de la comunicación multimodal: un análisis de la interacción mediada por el inglés en una clase universitaria
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https://doi.org/10.15446/profile.v27n2.115294Keywords:
bilingual education, English as a medium of instruction, ethnography of communication, multimodal communication, multimodal interaction analysis (en)análisis de la interacción, comunicación multimodal, educación bilingüe, etnografía de la comunicación, inglés como medio de instrucción (es)
This study combines multimodal interaction analysis and ethnography of communication to examine the social dynamics of the English classroom. It investigates the ways in which norms of interaction are established and enacted, how such norms shape and transform the social roles that class members assume in interactions, and the extent to which these norms and social roles are conducive to communicative action in pursuit of learning. Rather than approaching multimodality as the mere use of videos and pictures in pedagogical pursuits, this study examines how human interaction is populated by numerous semiotic resources and communicative modes (i.e., proxemics, gaze, gestures), and how meaning is formed and transformed in their interplay.
Este estudio combina el análisis de la interacción y la etnografía de la comunicación para examinar una clase en la que se emplea el inglés como medio de instrucción en relación con las formas en que se establecen las normas de interacción, cómo dichas normas forman y transforman los roles sociales en la clase y la medida en que las normas de interacción y los roles sociales son conducentes a la acción comunicativa para lograr aprendizajes. Este estudio profundiza en la forma en que la interacción humana está poblada por numerosos recursos semióticos y modos comunicativos (es decir, proxémica, miradas y gestos), cómo estos forman y transforman el significado y, finalmente, cómo el aprendizaje es un efecto de la interacción en el aula.
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