Schisming as an Interactional Resource for Learning at the Frontiers of Work and Vocational Training-A Secondary Publication

This paper examines the sorts of interactional competencies and institutional demands required from students as they engage in complex forms of participation combining work and training purposes.It focuses on a series of empirical cases,recorded through video data and analyzed from a conversation analytic perspective,in which mentors make the decision to intervene during work sessions moderated by students.Such interventions do not interrupt the student’s activity and lead to the emergence of two distinct but not impermeable interactional spaces.This complex participation framework,known as“schisming,”contributes to overcoming practical issues within multiparty settings.Our study shows how schisming constitutes a particular sequential phenomenon where participants reorganize the interaction and co-construct a social and cognitive interactional space,thus enabling a shared understanding of the specific training context.Empirical data from the practical training of medical radiographers are used to illustrate how schisming may contribute to learning in the conditions of guided practice.

A Q-based integrating interaction framework system for multi-agent coordination

Interaction is one of the crucial features of multl-agent systems, in which there are two kinds of interaction： agent-to-agent and human-to-agent. In order to unify the two kinds of interaction while designing multi-agent systems, this paper introduces Q language-a scenario description language for designing interaction among agents and humans. Based on Q, we propose an integrating interaction framework system for multi-agent coordination, in which Q scenarios are used to uniformly describe both kinds of interactions. Being in accordance to the characteristics of Q language, the Q-based framework makes the interaction process open and easily understood by the users. Additionally, it makes specific applications of multi-agent systems easy to be established by application designers. By applying agent negotiation in agent-mediated e-commerce and agent cooperation in interoperable information query on the Semantic Web, we illustrate how the presented framework for multi-agent coordination is implemented in concrete applications. At the same time, these two different applications also demonstrate usability of the presented framework and verify validity of Q language.

The Importance of Input and Interaction in SLA

As is known to us,input and interaction play the cru-cial roles in second language acquisition(SLA).Different linguis-tic schools have different explanations to input and interaction.Behaviorist theories hold a view that input is composed of stim-uli and response,putting more emphasis on the importance of input,while mentalist theories find input is a necessary condi-tion to SLA,not a sufficient condition.At present,social inter-action theories,which is one type of cognitive linguistics,sug-gests that besid...

Rationale of Promoting Interaction in Second Language Teaching

Interaction is one of the essential features of language. Through interactive activities, the learner’s interlanguage is developed and ultimately they can achieve language acquisition. Making a contrast with the traditional way of English teaching, the essay explores the advantages of interactive language teaching, and suggests some strategies to promote interaction in second language classroom.

REPAIR MECHANISM IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM INTERACTION

This paper presents practical research on repair mechanismand its four repair trajectories in FL classroom interaction. Thisshows that it is effective and efficient in assisting FL learners todevelop their communicative competence and understand theprocess of language acquisition. Repair strategies that are ofgreat value to FL teachers in FL classroom teaching are also ex-pounded.