An exploration of linguistic mediation activities in repair sequences: The case of a plurilingual youth participant in an after-school digital storytelling project

Miaomiao Zhang

doi:10.5565/rev/jtl3.1306

Una exploración de actividades de mediación lingüística en secuencias de reparación: El caso de un joven plurilingüe participante en un proyecto de narración digital después de la escuela

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Miaomiao Zhang Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0279-2999

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Resumen

Este artículo utiliza Análisis de la Conversación (AC) para explorar las actividades de mediación lingüística realizadas por un adolescente plurilingüe en interacción con un grupo de compañeros lingüística y culturalmente diversos, con un enfoque en secuencias de reparación. El análisis se centra en: 1) la ubicación de la reparación, es decir, la reparación orientada hacia adelante o hacia atrás; 2) el objeto de la reparación, centrándose en la reparación dirigida al código y la reparación dirigida al mensaje; 3) procedimientos mediante los cuales se selecciona al mediador lingüístico, ya sea por autoselección u otra selección; 4) procedimientos de interacción para completar la reparación, centrándose en la traducción y las secuencias de turno colaborativas. Este estudio contribuye a mejorar la comprensión de la mecánica de la mediación lingüística en contextos de diversidad lingüística y cultural desde una perspectiva interaccional, y entre jóvenes, en el contexto de un programa educativo extracurricular.

Palabras clave

Mediación lingüística, Reparación, Plurilingüismo, Multimodalidad, Análisis de la Conversación (AC)

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Biografía del autor/a

Miaomiao Zhang, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

PhD candidate in Education at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, with a bachelor’s degree in English Education from Henan Normal University, and a double master’s degree in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language from Zhengzhou University and Comillas Pontifical University.