1st Edition
Multilingual International Students in University Classrooms Multimodal Approaches to Interaction
By Yumi Matsumoto
Copyright 2027
480 Pages
247 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
This book elucidates the communicative practices of multilingual international students in university classrooms, charting how they employ not only speech but also a rich set of nonverbal semiotic resources for successful communication.
Matsumoto scrutinizes multilingual multimodal interactional sequences in which distinct multimodal features, such as gesture, laughter, or mobile technology,... Read more
1. Introduction, 2. Theorizing Learner Agency and Multimodality, 3. Research Context and Methodology, 4. Miscommunication Sequences, 5. Laughing Sequences, 6. Materials Use Sequences, 7. Virtual Sequences, 8. Conclusion: The EPRAS Framework and Recommendations for Research and Pedagogy, References, Index
Biography
Yumi Matsumoto is an associate professor of educational linguistics in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
