Screens And Scenes: Multimodal Communication In Online Inter

Description: This book examines the relationships between online visual interfaces and language use in educational contexts and the features that underpin them to explore the complex nature of online communication and its implications for educational practice. Adopting a case study approach featuring a global range of examples, the volume uniquely focuses on multimodal intercultural interactions, with a particular interest in videoconferencing, to look at how they project and reflect particular cultural values and tendencies concerning language use and how they elucidate the complex cultural identifications and affiliations inherent in intercultural encounters. The book employs a diverse range of theoretical and research frameworks to highlight the dynamic connections between digital technology, social life, and language use, and the ways in which they can inform language education, making this an ideal resource for students and scholars in applied linguistics, communication studies, media studies, information studies, and education.

Contents: 1. Introduction: Intercultural Exchange in the Age of Online Multimodal Communication Richard Kern and Christine Develotte Part I. Culture and Technoculture: Re-envisioning Interculturality 2. Comme une Francaise: Maintaining an Intercultural Threshold Space in Online Video Juliana de Nooy 3. Glocal Tensions: Exploring the Dynamics of Intercultural Communication Through a Language Learner's Vlog Tatiana Codreanu and Christelle Combe 4. People of the Eye Communicating Online: Deaf Intercultural Encounters in E-SCALE Siglinde Pape 5. Intergenerational Videoconferencing: Interpersonal Bonds and the Role of the Webcam Erica Dumont 6. Translation, Video-technology, and Interculturality: Benefits and Limits Layla Roesler and Fabienne Dumontet Part II. Telepresence, Felt Presence, Imagined Presence 7. Learning and Teaching Languages in Technology-Mediated Contexts: The Relevance of Social Presence, Co-Presence, Participatory Literacy and Multimodal Competence Mirjam Hauck and Muge Satar 8. Enacting the Scenography of a Video Call Within its Opening Sequence Samira Ibnelkaid 9. Affordances and Task Design: A Case Study of Online Mentoring between Practicing Teachers and Adolescent Learners Paige Ware, Karla del Rosal, and Jillian Conry 10. Seeing Apart and Learning Together: Intersubjectivity in Shared Language Classrooms David Malinowski 11. Medium and Addressivity in French Online Exchanges Richard Kern and Emily Linares 12. Effects of Presence in Videoconference Exchanges Christine Develotte, Morgane Domanchin, and Sabine Levet 13. Multimodality and Social Presence in an Intercultural Exchange Setting Meei-Ling Liaw and Paige Ware 14. Conclusion Christine Develotte and Richard Kern

Author Biography: Richard Kern is Professor of French and Director of the Berkeley Language Center at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. His pervious publications include Language, Literacy, and Technology (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Literacy and Language Teaching (Oxford University Press, 2000). Christine Develotte is University Professor in Language Sciences at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France. She is the originator of the online collaborative learning project Le francais en (premiere) ligne, which has brought together tutors and learners of French from around the world since 2002.