MIND (Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics) Research Group
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Mälardalen INteraction & Didactics (MIND) Research Group is based in Sweden (at Mälardalen University). We run data sessions, symposia, and other research events.
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Webpage: https://mindresearchgroup.org/
Posts by: @sertolcay.bsky.social.
Webpage: https://mindresearchgroup.org/
Our very own @marwaamri.bsky.social will have her final seminar (slutseminarium) in her PhD studies in Educational Sciences at Mälardalen University on the 20th of February at Mälardalen University, Västerås (Ypsilon). mindresearchgroup.org/2026/01/28/h...
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 ha…
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January 28, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Our very own @marwaamri.bsky.social will have her final seminar (slutseminarium) in her PhD studies in Educational Sciences at Mälardalen University on the 20th of February at Mälardalen University, Västerås (Ypsilon). mindresearchgroup.org/2026/01/28/h...
MIND data sessions programme for spring 2026 is now out! For more on the activities of Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics research group, please visit mindresearchgroup.org. If you want to attend our data sessions, send an email to @mervebozbiyik.bsky.social merve.bozbiyik@mdu.se. Spread the word!
January 26, 2026 at 12:24 PM
MIND data sessions programme for spring 2026 is now out! For more on the activities of Mälardalen INteraction and Didactics research group, please visit mindresearchgroup.org. If you want to attend our data sessions, send an email to @mervebozbiyik.bsky.social merve.bozbiyik@mdu.se. Spread the word!
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New article out! Navigating grammar explanations in online pedagogical interaction: a sequential account (by Mark Romig) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @lansi2024.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social
Navigating grammar explanations in online pedagogical interaction: a sequential account
Research on grammar pedagogy has shed much light on the effectiveness of different types of instruction (e.g. explicit vs. implicit, focus on form vs. focus on forms, etc.), but how grammar is expl...
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January 11, 2026 at 5:14 PM
New article out! Navigating grammar explanations in online pedagogical interaction: a sequential account (by Mark Romig) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @lansi2024.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social
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New article out! Phonemic handshape isolation in American Sign Language #ASL vocabulary instruction, by Alyson Horan @lansi2024.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Phonemic handshape isolation in ASL vocabulary instruction
With the growing body of sign language research across linguistic fields, there remains a sizeable gap in the area of cross-modality sign language instruction, particularly in the field of conversa...
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December 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
New article out! Phonemic handshape isolation in American Sign Language #ASL vocabulary instruction, by Alyson Horan @lansi2024.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Nu kör vi! The 4th MIND (Mälardalen Interaction and Didactics) mini-symposium! mindresearchgroup.org/symposia/ @mindresearchgroup.bsky.social @marwaamri.bsky.social @mervebozbiyik.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Nu kör vi! The 4th MIND (Mälardalen Interaction and Didactics) mini-symposium! mindresearchgroup.org/symposia/ @mindresearchgroup.bsky.social @marwaamri.bsky.social @mervebozbiyik.bsky.social
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A review of our book "Conversation analysis and language teacher education: Intervention studies" (with Prof Hansun Waring, @teacherscollege.bsky.social ) is now out in Language and Education! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Conversation analysis and language teacher education: Intervention studies
Published in Language and Education (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A review of our book "Conversation analysis and language teacher education: Intervention studies" (with Prof Hansun Waring, @teacherscollege.bsky.social ) is now out in Language and Education! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
An article about a MIND project conducted by our researchers Mika Ishino and Olcay Sert: Bridging Educational Cultures Through Classroom Interaction:
A Telecollaboration Project Between Sweden and Japan www.pedagogmalardalen.se/pedagog/reda... @sertolcay.bsky.social @mika-ishino.bsky.social
A Telecollaboration Project Between Sweden and Japan www.pedagogmalardalen.se/pedagog/reda... @sertolcay.bsky.social @mika-ishino.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
An article about a MIND project conducted by our researchers Mika Ishino and Olcay Sert: Bridging Educational Cultures Through Classroom Interaction:
A Telecollaboration Project Between Sweden and Japan www.pedagogmalardalen.se/pedagog/reda... @sertolcay.bsky.social @mika-ishino.bsky.social
A Telecollaboration Project Between Sweden and Japan www.pedagogmalardalen.se/pedagog/reda... @sertolcay.bsky.social @mika-ishino.bsky.social
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The final article of the new issue, by Tianfang Wang and her colleagues, is on the role of side sequences in building affiliation in the L2 classroom www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Building affiliation in the L2 classroom: the role of side sequences
Previous conversation analytic (CA) studies have explored how affiliation is created in L2 classrooms. This study adds to the research by documenting the opportunities for creating affiliative mome...
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November 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The final article of the new issue, by Tianfang Wang and her colleagues, is on the role of side sequences in building affiliation in the L2 classroom www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The 4th article, by Müge Satar and Betül Ç,menli Olcars, is on interactional resources for topic transition during online intercultural exchange in a language teacher education context www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 👇
Online intercultural exchange in language teacher education: interactional resources for topic transition
Topic management is under-explored in language learning, teaching and testing settings. It may pose particular challenges in online intercultural exchanges (OIE) or virtual exchange (VE) because of...
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November 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The 4th article, by Müge Satar and Betül Ç,menli Olcars, is on interactional resources for topic transition during online intercultural exchange in a language teacher education context www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 👇
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In the 3rd article, M. Montanero et al. investigate spontaneous vs. structured collaboration in dialogic interaction between young writers www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 👇
Dialogic interaction between young writers: spontaneous vs. structured collaboration
The aim of this study was to compare different collaborative (spontaneous and structured) story writing practices in a sample of 50 sixth graders students (11–12 years old). For the spontaneous syn...
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November 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
In the 3rd article, M. Montanero et al. investigate spontaneous vs. structured collaboration in dialogic interaction between young writers www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 👇
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The second article, by Nicholas Glasson & Katherine Halley, explores proficiency scores and embodied resources in online L2 interactions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 👇
Less talk, more action? Exploring proficiency scores and embodied resources in online L2 interactions
This mixed-methods study explores Embodied Resources (ERs) in an online, triadic task involving 52 candidates within the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) B2˗C1 range of l...
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November 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The second article, by Nicholas Glasson & Katherine Halley, explores proficiency scores and embodied resources in online L2 interactions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 👇
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Volume 16, Issue 3 of Classroom Discourse is now out! The first article, by Xiaoyun Wang, Xiaoting Li & Shui Li, explores how teachers use DIUs & other multimodal resources to pursue student responses to their questions in Chinese as a second language classrooms www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 👇
Pursuing student response through incomplete syntax, prosody, bodily- and visuo-orthographical resources in Chinese-as-a-second-language classrooms
This study investigates how teachers use designedly incomplete utterances (DIUs) and other multimodal resources to pursue student responses to their questions to accomplish particular pedagogical t...
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November 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Volume 16, Issue 3 of Classroom Discourse is now out! The first article, by Xiaoyun Wang, Xiaoting Li & Shui Li, explores how teachers use DIUs & other multimodal resources to pursue student responses to their questions in Chinese as a second language classrooms www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 👇
A video summary of the article published by MIND members @sertolcay.bsky.social & @mika-ishino.bsky.social 👇
A video presentation (generated by NotebookLM) of "Collaborative Noticing of Multimodality in Language Classroom Interaction: A telecollaboration project between student-teachers of English in Sweden and Japan" (w/ @mika-ishino.bsky.social) youtu.be/Nu8hxS_OKrc?... . #TESOL #telecollaboration #CA
Collaborative Noticing of Multimodality in Language Classroom Interaction
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November 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A video summary of the article published by MIND members @sertolcay.bsky.social & @mika-ishino.bsky.social 👇
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A review (by Eunseok Ro) of "Conversation analysis and language teacher education: Intervention studies" (eds. Olcay Sert and Hansun Zhang Waring) is now out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... @sertolcay.bsky.social @lansi2024.bsky.social #intervention #EMCA #classroom #teacher #education
Conversation analysis and language teacher education: Intervention studies
Published in Classroom Discourse (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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October 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
A review (by Eunseok Ro) of "Conversation analysis and language teacher education: Intervention studies" (eds. Olcay Sert and Hansun Zhang Waring) is now out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... @sertolcay.bsky.social @lansi2024.bsky.social #intervention #EMCA #classroom #teacher #education
The 4th MIND mini-symposium will take place at Mälardalen University on November 20, 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”. mindresearchgroup.org/2025/10/02/t...
October 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The 4th MIND mini-symposium will take place at Mälardalen University on November 20, 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”. mindresearchgroup.org/2025/10/02/t...
In our next MIND data session (Thursday, 2 October, 13:15-CET), we will welcome Teppo Jakonen (University of Turku, Finland) with his study:"Interacting in L2 #Finnish with a #virtual patient in an immersive virtual reality nursing #simulation". mindresearchgroup.org/data-sessions/ Wanna attend? 👇
Data Sessions
MIND Data sessions: Autumn 2025 MIND Data sessions: Spring 2025 13 February, 13:15-14:45 Tuğba Özdemir (Hacettepe University) “Learning two senses ‘cold-blooded’” U3-104 (Västerås) also Teams …
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September 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
In our next MIND data session (Thursday, 2 October, 13:15-CET), we will welcome Teppo Jakonen (University of Turku, Finland) with his study:"Interacting in L2 #Finnish with a #virtual patient in an immersive virtual reality nursing #simulation". mindresearchgroup.org/data-sessions/ Wanna attend? 👇
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#openaccess: Collaborative Noticing of #Multimodality in Language #Classroom #Interaction: A Telecollaboration Project Between Student‐Teachers of #English in Sweden and Japan - @sertolcay.bsky.social & @mika-ishino.bsky.social - 2025 - TESOL Journal - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #EMCA
Collaborative Noticing of Multimodality in Language Classroom Interaction: A Telecollaboration Project Between Student‐Teachers of English in Sweden and Japan
Telecollaboration in pre-service teacher education promotes intercultural communicative competence and bridges knowledge and practice. Although a growing body of studies has addressed the affordances...
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September 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
#openaccess: Collaborative Noticing of #Multimodality in Language #Classroom #Interaction: A Telecollaboration Project Between Student‐Teachers of #English in Sweden and Japan - @sertolcay.bsky.social & @mika-ishino.bsky.social - 2025 - TESOL Journal - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #EMCA
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Kajsa Lind (Jensen High School) & I wrote a retrospective analysis of her learning journey after she completed my classroom interaction course & graduated from our teacher education program. We have a video-pod that summarizes our study: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xr6.... The link to the article is 👇
Learning to Respond to Student Utterances During a Classroom Interaction Course in Sweden
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September 23, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Kajsa Lind (Jensen High School) & I wrote a retrospective analysis of her learning journey after she completed my classroom interaction course & graduated from our teacher education program. We have a video-pod that summarizes our study: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xr6.... The link to the article is 👇
Our next MIND data session is on 25 September, 13:15 (CET) Mika Ishino (Doshisha University)&Aya Watanabe (Fukui Prefectural Uni.) will present data from L2 young learners' classrooms. The session takes place in hybrid mode, in U3-083 (Västerås) and on Teams: mindresearchgroup.org/data-sessions/
Data Sessions
MIND Data sessions: Autumn 2025 MIND Data sessions: Spring 2025 13 February, 13:15-14:45 Tuğba Özdemir (Hacettepe University) “Learning two senses ‘cold-blooded’” U3-104 (Västerås) also Teams …
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September 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Our next MIND data session is on 25 September, 13:15 (CET) Mika Ishino (Doshisha University)&Aya Watanabe (Fukui Prefectural Uni.) will present data from L2 young learners' classrooms. The session takes place in hybrid mode, in U3-083 (Västerås) and on Teams: mindresearchgroup.org/data-sessions/
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Our edited volume (w/ Hansun Waring, Teachers College, Columbia University) "Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education: Intervention Studies" is now out! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #CA #EMCA #teachereducation #teaching #interaction #classroom
Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education
This volume brings together studies that document practice-based changes in which conversation analysis plays a role.
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August 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Our edited volume (w/ Hansun Waring, Teachers College, Columbia University) "Conversation Analysis and Language Teacher Education: Intervention Studies" is now out! link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #CA #EMCA #teachereducation #teaching #interaction #classroom
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How much time do we have? On Countdown timers in Japanese schools and the first week of my “minigration” to Japan olcaysert.net/2025/07/21/h... #Japan #time #minigration #school #teaching #learning
How much time do we have? On Countdown timers in Japanese schools and the first week of my “minigration” to Japan
Sensei Naoko puts a digital countdown timer on the board. Sets it to 40 seconds. All pupils stand up: it is time to practice, in pairs, the months in English. One of the students says 2月, the other…
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July 21, 2025 at 6:47 AM
How much time do we have? On Countdown timers in Japanese schools and the first week of my “minigration” to Japan olcaysert.net/2025/07/21/h... #Japan #time #minigration #school #teaching #learning
A new #openaccess article, published in Linguistics and Education, by our researchers @marwaamri.bsky.social & @sertolcay.bsky.social: "Teachers’ responses in student-initiated question sequences during between-desk interactions in #EFL project work" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #CA
Teachers’ responses in student-initiated question sequences during between-desk interactions in EFL project work
A defining feature of project-based English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classrooms is teachers’ routine circulation between desks to answer students’ …
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July 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
A new #openaccess article, published in Linguistics and Education, by our researchers @marwaamri.bsky.social & @sertolcay.bsky.social: "Teachers’ responses in student-initiated question sequences during between-desk interactions in #EFL project work" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #CA
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A new SI of Classroom Discourse is now out!:"Analyzing educational interactions: exploring the methodological breadth" www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcdi20/1.... The issue features qualitative &quantitative studies that showcase methodologies & the use of empirical data to analyse classroom discourse /0👇
Classroom Discourse
Analyzing educational interactions: exploring the methodological breadth. Volume 16, Issue 2 of Classroom Discourse
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July 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A new SI of Classroom Discourse is now out!:"Analyzing educational interactions: exploring the methodological breadth" www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcdi20/1.... The issue features qualitative &quantitative studies that showcase methodologies & the use of empirical data to analyse classroom discourse /0👇
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SAVE THE DATE: The next Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2) Conference will be held at Newcastle University 24-26 August 2026. Please watch this space for details on plenary speakers, workshops, the call for papers and more! 😃
May 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
SAVE THE DATE: The next Interactional Competences and Practices in a Second Language (ICOP-L2) Conference will be held at Newcastle University 24-26 August 2026. Please watch this space for details on plenary speakers, workshops, the call for papers and more! 😃
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Designing for Computational Collaboration: Using a Storyboard Educational Design to Scaffold Collaborative Coding for Childhood Education constructionism.oapublishing.ch/index.php/co...
Designing for Computational Collaboration: Using a Storyboard Educational Design to Scaffold Collaborative Coding for Childhood Education
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June 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Designing for Computational Collaboration: Using a Storyboard Educational Design to Scaffold Collaborative Coding for Childhood Education constructionism.oapublishing.ch/index.php/co...