Under co-construction: An online community of practice for bilingual pre-service teachers
With the advent of information and communication technologies, computer-mediated communication (CMC) has become a new medium for discursive interaction among learners in the classroom. In particular, an important extension of situated learning theory and community of practice for web-based communiti...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Computers and education 2016-01, Vol.92-93, p.76-89 |
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Zusammenfassung: | With the advent of information and communication technologies, computer-mediated communication (CMC) has become a new medium for discursive interaction among learners in the classroom. In particular, an important extension of situated learning theory and community of practice for web-based communities has been a rapidly growing interest among researchers who are interested in how people socialize themselves into a discourse community in the online environment and how they use language to construct group affiliations and social identities. Using membership categorization analysis, this study aims to present the fine-grained details of participants' situated categorization practices in an online community of practice for bilingual pre-service teachers. Findings show how bilingual pre-service teachers utilized community-building features of mutual engagement, a joint enterprise, and shared repertoire proposed by Wenger's (1998) community of practice framework. Ultimately, this study argues for creating an online community of practice for culturally and linguistically diverse pre-service teachers that allows the use of multiple varieties of language, including their heritage language.
•An online community of practice (CoP) was co-constructed by bilingual pre-service teachers.•Membership categorization analysis (MCA) provided the fine-grained details about social interactions among participants.•Instances of mutual engagement and a joint enterprise were manifested in the online discussion data.•Affective stance was used as a shared repertoire among pre-service teachers.•Personal narratives, including multiple varieties of languages, were found in the online CoP. |
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ISSN: | 0360-1315 1873-782X |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.compedu.2015.10.008 |