The Plurilingual and Multimodal Management of Participation and Subject Complexity in University CLIL Teamwork

• Published in: English language teaching (Toronto) Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 100 - 112
• Main Authors: Borràs, Eulàlia, Moore, Emilee
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 10.01.2019
• Subjects: Classification; Code Switching (Language); College Students; Communication Problems; Communication Skills; Cooperative Learning; Course Content; Discourse Analysis; English (Second Language); Expertise; Foreign Countries; Foreign Students; Intercultural Communication; Language of Instruction; Language Usage; Multilingualism; Native Language; Romance Languages; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Spanish; Student Attitudes; Task Analysis; Teamwork; Turkish; Spain

This paper explores the interactions of a groupwork team composed of both local and exchange students, with heterogeneous competence in English, in an English-medium CLIL context at a technical university in Catalonia. Plurilingual and multimodal conversation analysis is used to trace how the studen...