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Higher Seminar, 20 February, 2026: Marwa Amri – Doing project work in the English language classroom

On the 20th of February, 2026 (13:15: 15:00, CET), our very own Marwa Amri will have her final seminar (slutseminarium) in her PhD studies in Educational Sciences at Mälardalen University. Marwa has conducted her PhD studies within MIND Research group and has published three research articles on project work in English language classrooms. Her firstContinue reading “Higher Seminar, 20 February, 2026: Marwa Amri – Doing project work in the English language classroom”

Numa Markee’s “technoblurbs” and my technical and workflow choices

Originally posted on Olcay Sert:
Numa Markee created a webpage that has very useful information for Conversation Analysis researchers who want to have an overview of software and hardware for recording, transcriptions, and other tasks: https://numamarkee.com/resources/ The page has a section (please scroll down) that presents real world examples of technical and workflow choices from…

ICOP-L2, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding, June 5-7, 2024

2024 – University of Southern Denmark, Kolding ICOP-L2, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding, June 5-7, 2024 1st call for papers (Click here for the PDF of the CfP) Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2) conferences aim to bring together researchers sharing a socially and interactionally situated view of language use, L2 learning andContinue reading “ICOP-L2, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding, June 5-7, 2024”

Call for chapters: Conversation Analysis as a Change Agent in Language Teacher Education

We are soliciting manuscripts for an edited volume on conversation analysis as a change agent in language teacher education. Over the last decade, conversation analytic (CA) findings from classroom discourse studies have started feeding into language teacher education contexts, yielding a number of CA-based teacher training frameworks such as SETT (Walsh 2013), IMDAT (Sert, 2019)Continue reading “Call for chapters: Conversation Analysis as a Change Agent in Language Teacher Education”

MIND Data sessions, Autumn 2022

Please get in touch with Olcay Sert (olcay.sert[at]mdu.se) if you want to join in. ________________________________________________________ MIND Data Sessions – Autumn 2022 ——————— 13 October: Olcay Sert, Marwa Amri, Annaliina Gynne (Mälardalen University) Transforming situated language policies through data-led reflections on classroom interaction (CA/Ethnography data session) U3-083, Västerås, 13:15-14:45 ——————— 3 November: Teppo Jakonen (University ofContinue reading “MIND Data sessions, Autumn 2022”

Some reflections on the ECER 2022 conference: from Mälardalen to Yerevan

Originally posted on Olcay Sert:
I am one of those who think that one needs to balance “big” and more focused “small” conferences during a year: you can dig in deep in more subject/methodology/field specific small conferences, and map the broader field in a big one. For me, the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER)…

Change of date: Data session on telepresence robot mediated classroom interaction

Teppo Jakonen’s online data session “Telepresence robot mediated classroom interaction” has been postponed to the 3rd of June, 13:15 (CET). See the updated list of data session below. Get in touch with us at olcay.sert@mdh.se or marwa.amri@mdh.se for information.

Online data session- Stephen Looney

Our next online data session will be led by Stephen Looney (The Pennsylvania State University). Steven will present data from a large body of video-recorded classrooms collected over the course of a semester in an Intensive English Program at a large US research university. Please see the event poster below for details on the date.Continue reading “Online data session- Stephen Looney”