TY - JOUR
T1 - Who owns the floor? Examining participation in a collaborative learning scenario between student teachers and active professionals in second life
AU - Wang, Airong
AU - Steinvall, Anders
AU - Deutschmann, Mats
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2014, IGI Global.
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - This study investigates the effects of unequal power relations on participation in a group of student teachers and invited professionals in two collaborative workshops in Second Life. The data includes recordings, group reflections, and individual questionnaires. Participation was examined from the aspects of floor space, turn length, and utterance functions and complemented with student reflections. The results show that at a general level, the differences of floor space and turn length between the invited professionals and the students were small. Moreover, the invited professionals did more conversational management than the students, while the students performed more supportive speech acts. There were, however, individual variations.
AB - This study investigates the effects of unequal power relations on participation in a group of student teachers and invited professionals in two collaborative workshops in Second Life. The data includes recordings, group reflections, and individual questionnaires. Participation was examined from the aspects of floor space, turn length, and utterance functions and complemented with student reflections. The results show that at a general level, the differences of floor space and turn length between the invited professionals and the students were small. Moreover, the invited professionals did more conversational management than the students, while the students performed more supportive speech acts. There were, however, individual variations.
KW - Collaboration
KW - Discourse functions
KW - Floor space
KW - Network
KW - Participation
KW - Second life
KW - Turn length
KW - Unequal power relations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84928182963&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4018/ijvple.2014010103
DO - 10.4018/ijvple.2014010103
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84928182963
SN - 1947-8518
VL - 5
SP - 34
EP - 53
JO - International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments
JF - International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments
IS - 1
ER -