Teachers' gestures in synchronous online language classrooms: embodied elicitation strategies for student participation


ŞİMŞEK TONTUŞ A., KURU GÖNEN S. İ.

SOCIAL SEMIOTICS, 2025 (AHCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Basım Tarihi: 2025
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/10350330.2024.2448007
  • Dergi Adı: SOCIAL SEMIOTICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Communication Abstracts, Educational research abstracts (ERA), Index Islamicus, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Social services abstracts, Sociological abstracts
  • Anadolu Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Classroom interaction research has increasingly embraced the analysis of multimodal resources, including teacher gestures, alongside verbal input in eliciting student contributions. This focus has extended to online video-mediated classrooms, where such strategies remain equally indispensable. Employing a multimodal Conversation Analysis approach, this study examines an English language teacher's multimodal interactional strategy to elicit student contributions in online video-mediated interactions. Drawing on screen recordings of online English language classrooms in higher education, the analysis reveals how the teacher established embodied elicitation strategies as an online classroom norm to facilitate and balance multiparty student participation through hand gestures, empowering students to regulate their involvement through their gestures. This study provides deeper insights into the role of teacher gestures in online classroom interactions, shedding light on how the affordances and constraints of different interactional environments shape their use. The findings offer valuable implications for enhancing the pedagogical practices of both pre-service and in-service teachers.