An Inquiry Into the Multimodal Teaching and Learning of EFL in Open University of China—Research Based on a Sharing Community of WeChat Group Chat of Students of Taizhou Radio&TV University

• 作者: DAI Jinjun
• 来源期刊: 中美英语教学:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: MULTIMODALITY conversational analysis participation interaction social identity
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（2）
• 页码范围: 31-45
• 页数: 15页
• 分类号: H31

摘要

With the availability of technology,multimodal teaching and learning becomes an important part of English teaching and learning among English teachers in China and Chinese adult students.WeChat group chat is a platform where the multimodal resources are thrived,namely,links to an official account,photos of English expressions that come in the form of screen shots,etc.And to a group chat with English learning as a specific goal,the multimodal resources include the English conversations between teachers in the group and the teacher’s lecture as well.In order to figure out how exactly the multimodal teaching facilitates learning,and how the peer learning promotes learning,we carry out research based on a sharing community of WeChat group chat of students of Taizhou Radio&TV University organized by teachers of English as a foreign language(EFL).With the sizable data,this paper brings multimodal interaction,sociolinguistic interaction,and conversational analysis together.We explore how the teachers and students participate in the chat with their specific identities by means of a detailed analysis of the selected chat in the group within consecutive 10 months in a year(from March 5th,2019 to December 26th,2019)as well as the data analysis of a questionnaire.This paper contributes to the literature of how to motivate the adult students to participate in the English learning group chat.It also has potential applicability for educators to develop strategies for language learners to guide them in creating and transmitting their social identities.