Tandem telecollaboration is a pedagogy used in second language learning where mixed groups of students meet online in videoconferencing sessions to practice their conversational skills in their target language. We have built and deployed a system called L2 Learning to support post-session review and self-reflection on students’ participation in such meetings. We automatically compute a metric called Conversational Volatility which quantifies the amount of interaction among participants, indicating how dynamic or flat the conversations were. Our analysis on more than 100 hours of video recordings involving 28 of our students indicates that conversations do not get more dynamic as meetings progress, that there is a wide variety of levels of interaction across students and student groups, and the speaking in French appears to have more animated conversations than speaking in English, though the reasons for that are not clear.
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Item Type:
Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:
Conference
Refereed:
Yes
Additional Information:
PP. 644-652
Uncontrolled Keywords:
Telecollaboration; Second Language Learning; Conversational Dialogue, Videoconferencing.
8th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’22), Proceedings.
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Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. ISBN 978-84-1396-003-6
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under Grant Number SFI/12/RC/2289_P2 (Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics), co-funded by the European Regional Development Fun
ID Code:
27059
Deposited On:
21 Jun 2022 12:54 by
Alan Smeaton
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