Tag Archives: classroom interaction

The 4th MIND Mini-Symposium (20 November, 2025)

The 4th MIND (Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics Research Group) mini-symposium will take place at Mälardalen University, Västerås, on the 20th of November, 2025. The theme of our symposium this year is “Beyond the binary of progressive vs. formal: interactional research on learning and teaching on the way to hybrid intelligence”. Teppo Jakonen (University of Turku)Continue reading “The 4th MIND Mini-Symposium (20 November, 2025)”

MIND Data Sessions, Autumn 2025/26

We are happy to announce our data sessions for the current academic semester. The sessions are in hybrid mode and can be attended online or in person. Our programme includes researchers based in Japan, Finland, the UK, Sweden and Türkiye. The topics and contexts include second language classrooms for young learners in Japan, an immersiveContinue reading “MIND Data Sessions, Autumn 2025/26”

Pedagog Mälardalen: The 3rd MIND (Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics) mini-symposium

Pedagog Mälardalen has published a very good recap (på svenska) of the 3rd MIND (Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics) mini-symposium held at Mälardalen University. We engaged in discussions about research that is at the intersection of interaction and education, as well as research grants & collaboration between our research groups. We had a fantastic line upContinue reading “Pedagog Mälardalen: The 3rd MIND (Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics) mini-symposium”

The 2nd MIND Symposium

At the crossroads of collaboration, interaction and development: A MIND map for research on teaching and learning On the 14th of December, MIND (Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics) research group organised the 2nd MIND mini-symposium: “At the crossroads of collaboration, interaction and development – A MIND map for research on teaching and learning”. With MIND researchersContinue reading “The 2nd MIND Symposium”

MIND Data sessions – Autumn 2023

Our data session programme for Autumn 2023 is now out! All sessions will take place in Västerås (Thursdays, 13:15, Central European Time), with a possibility to attend online. Let us know if you are interested in joining in, and also present in one of our data sessions in Spring.

Guest blog by Olcay Sert- “You need to be reminded about those small things that make differences”: Classroom interaction and language teaching

Our researcher Olcay Sert was invited to write a guest blog for Karlstad University, Centre for Language and Literature Education. Olcay wrote about the importance of classroom interaction in language teaching, arguing for a focus on classroom interaction in initial teacher education and continuous professional development. The full text is available at https://sola.kau.se/cslblog/2023/05/31/you-need-to-be-reminded-about-those-small-things-that-make-differences-classroom-interaction-and-language-teaching/ We wouldContinue reading “Guest blog by Olcay Sert- “You need to be reminded about those small things that make differences”: Classroom interaction and language teaching”

Questions and agency in the older adult language classroom

As life-long-learning initiatives have spread around the world, there are now more language courses offered to older-adults. However, we know very little about the interactional dynamics of classrooms in which older-adults learn languages. In this guest blog post, researcher Mara van der Ploeg (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) and her colleagues share their research findingsContinue reading “Questions and agency in the older adult language classroom“