TY - JOUR
T1 - Parsing Tasks for the Mobile Novice in Real Time
T2 - Orientation to the Learner's Actions and to Spatial and Temporal Constraints in Instructing-on-the-move
AU - Rauniomaa, Mirka
AU - Haddington, Pentti
AU - Melander, Helen
AU - Gazin, Anne-Danièle
AU - Broth, Mathias
AU - Cromdal, Jakob
AU - Levin, Lena
AU - Mcilvenny, Paul Bruce
PY - 2018/4
Y1 - 2018/4
N2 - This paper studies parsing as a practice used in mobile instruction. The findings build on ethnomethodological conversation analysis and on observations made on video data that have been collected from three settings: skiing, driving a car and flying a plane. In the data, novice learners are instructed by more experienced instructors to accomplish various mobile tasks. The paper shows how instructors use parsing to guide learners to carry out, step-by-step, the sub-actions that the ongoing mobile task (e.g. turning, landing) is composed of. The paper argues that parsing is a practice employed by instructors to highlight the sub-actions of a mobile task. Instructors may also use parsing to orient learners to emergent problems to do with the timing, quality and order of the sub-actions in the performance of a complex mobile task. Finally, the paper shows that sometimes there is not enough time to parse an ongoing task, in which case the parsing can be carried out afterwards.
AB - This paper studies parsing as a practice used in mobile instruction. The findings build on ethnomethodological conversation analysis and on observations made on video data that have been collected from three settings: skiing, driving a car and flying a plane. In the data, novice learners are instructed by more experienced instructors to accomplish various mobile tasks. The paper shows how instructors use parsing to guide learners to carry out, step-by-step, the sub-actions that the ongoing mobile task (e.g. turning, landing) is composed of. The paper argues that parsing is a practice employed by instructors to highlight the sub-actions of a mobile task. Instructors may also use parsing to orient learners to emergent problems to do with the timing, quality and order of the sub-actions in the performance of a complex mobile task. Finally, the paper shows that sometimes there is not enough time to parse an ongoing task, in which case the parsing can be carried out afterwards.
KW - Conversation analysis
KW - Instruction
KW - Mobility
KW - Parsing
KW - Social interaction
KW - Space-time
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85044090978&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.pragma.2018.01.005
DO - 10.1016/j.pragma.2018.01.005
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0378-2166
VL - 128
SP - 30
EP - 52
JO - Journal of Pragmatics
JF - Journal of Pragmatics
ER -