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Follow-up contributions for collaboratively accomplishing peer feedback in video-mediated L2 interactions

  • Kübra Ekşi

    Kübra Ekşi is a PhD candidate in the Department of English Language Teaching at Hacettepe University, at the same time holding an English language instructor position at National Defense University. Her research interest lies in L2 interaction, feedback talk-in-interaction and language teacher education from a conversation analytic perspective.

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    and Nilüfer Can Daşkın

    Nilüfer Can Daşkın is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language Teaching at Hacettepe University. Using Conversation Analysis, her research interests include L2 interaction, language teacher education, informal formative assessment, and figurative language teaching.

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Abstract

A micro-level analysis of second language (L2) peer feedback interactions specifically aimed at improving interactional abilities is lacking. Drawing on multimodal Conversation Analysis to examine 20 h of screen-recorded interactions of L2 learners in a video-mediated study group setting, this study demonstrates that in the collaborative accomplishment of L2 feedback in talk-in-interaction, peers’ follow-up contributions expand others’ feedback turns and open up space for further sequences of talk simultaneously. The follow-up contributions are realized through four interactional practices: (1) advising, (2) reformulating, (3) counterclaiming and (4) clarification-seeking. It is through such follow-up contributions that L2 learners change speakership, build turns contingent on previous contributions, perform diverse social actions, from resisting to clarifying, display their understanding and contribute to the ongoing feedback talk. We argue that being able to produce follow-up contributions is a crucial part of one’s L2 Interactional Competence (IC) and becomes a valuable interactional practice in securing intersubjectivity among the participants. The findings inform L2 language pedagogies about increasing learners’ sensitivity to the intricacies of dialogic and collaborative feedback talk from a micro-analytic perspective.


Corresponding author: Kübra Ekşi, Institute of Educational Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara 06800, Türkiye, E-mail:

About the authors

Kübra Ekşi

Kübra Ekşi is a PhD candidate in the Department of English Language Teaching at Hacettepe University, at the same time holding an English language instructor position at National Defense University. Her research interest lies in L2 interaction, feedback talk-in-interaction and language teacher education from a conversation analytic perspective.

Nilüfer Can Daşkın

Nilüfer Can Daşkın is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language Teaching at Hacettepe University. Using Conversation Analysis, her research interests include L2 interaction, language teacher education, informal formative assessment, and figurative language teaching.

Acknowledgments

This research article is based on the first author’s PhD thesis at the Institute of Educational Sciences, Hacettepe University.

Appendix A: Transcription conventions

Jefferson (2004)

Mondada (2018)

Appendix B: Symbols delimiting participant actions

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Received: 2024-05-08
Accepted: 2024-12-13
Published Online: 2025-01-06

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