Note-taking/making as a resource for substantiating advice at a second language speaking center

Eunseok Ro

doi:10.1515/text-2021-0034

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Note-taking/making as a resource for substantiating advice at a second language speaking center

Eunseok Ro
Eunseok Ro is an assistant professor at Kangwon National University in the Division of Liberal Studies. His interests include conversation analysis of institutional interaction, especially in L2 educational contexts, and CA-for-SLA. His recent work has appeared in Applied Linguistics, The Modern Language Journal, TESOL Quarterly, Applied Linguistics Review, Journal of Pragmatics, Linguistics and Education, International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, and Text & Talk.

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Abstract

This paper uses conversation analysis as an analytical approach to investigate how a tutor and her students in one-on-one speaking consultation sessions at a university in Hong Kong participate in interview-practice activities using English as a medium of instruction. The study uses approximately 4 h of recordings from six tutoring sessions. In particular, by focusing on how interactional practices are intertwined with the activity of note-taking/making, this paper offers a close examination of the advice-giving activity with the use of notes. The findings illustrate that whether the notes reflect what the student shares during an interview-practicing activity or a Q-A sequence during advice-giving activity, the tutor uses the notes to account for her ensuing advice. Based on the findings, I argue that the tutor’s notes play a pivotal role in grounding her advice during interview consultations at the L2 speaking center.

Keywords: advice-giving; conversation analysis; dyadic conversation; interview-practice; L2 speaking consultation; note-making practice; note-taking practice

Corresponding author: Eunseok Ro, Division of Liberal Studies, Kangwon National University, 60th Anniversary Memorial Hall, 3rd Floor, 1 Gangwondaehak-gil, Chuncheon-si, Gangwon-do, 24341, South Korea, E-mail: roeunseok@kangwon.ac.kr

Funding source: City University of Hong Kong

Award Identifier / Grant number: 7200605

Funding source: Kangwon National University

About the author

Eunseok Ro

Eunseok Ro is an assistant professor at Kangwon National University in the Division of Liberal Studies. His interests include conversation analysis of institutional interaction, especially in L2 educational contexts, and CA-for-SLA. His recent work has appeared in Applied Linguistics, The Modern Language Journal, TESOL Quarterly, Applied Linguistics Review, Journal of Pragmatics, Linguistics and Education, International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, and Text & Talk.

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the English language center and the participants involved in this study for allowing me access their consultation sessions. I would also like to thank the Text & Talk’s Editor-in-Chief (Prof. Srikant Sarangi) and the anonymous reviewers for their constructive suggestions and comments throughout the revision process. I also thank Joseph Tai for assisting me on collecting and transcribing the data.

Research funding: This study was supported by 2020 Research Grant from Kangwon National University (Project No. 520200089). The work described in this paper was also partially supported by a grant from City University of Hong Kong (Project No. 7200605).

Appendix

TRANSCRIPTION CONVENTIONS FOR VOCAL DETAILSBased on the system developed by Jefferson (2004)

TRANSCRIPTION CONVENTIONS FOR NONVOCAL DETAILSAdapted from mondada (2016)

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Received: 2021-03-10

Accepted: 2021-09-29

Published Online: 2021-10-11

Published in Print: 2023-11-27

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advice-giving; conversation analysis; dyadic conversation; interview-practice; L2 speaking consultation; note-making practice; note-taking practice