professional perezhivanie of teachers. The findings expand our understanding of the nature of teachers’ responses to education reforms and their trajectories of development in terms of the sense-making prism of perezhivanie. WEDNESDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2018 TIME/ ROOM
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Digital border crossings: Promoting digital literacy as a means of crossing generic, modal, linguistic and national boundaries Diane Belcher – Georgia State University While literacy educators have long been urged to view writing as linked with other modes, including oral communication, and writing pedagogy as ideally moving well beyond template-oriented views of genre, only more recently has writing been conceived of as part of a much larger technology-enhanced semiotic toolkit, capable of engendering dynamic, hybrid genre development. Such a digitally-enriched view of composing is especially likely to benefit multilingual writers, who can now be offered the affordances of a wealth of composing-process resources—audio and visual. This presentation will focus on some of the many ways in which digital multimodal composing enables multilingual writers to think and communicate outside the confines of single linguistic modes and codes, as well as genres, and succeed in reaching authentic global audiences. TIME/ ROOM
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Investigating the identity of 'Siri': A conversation analytic perspective Eleni Petraki – University of Canberra Human-computer interaction has attracted significant research over the years, especially with the boom of technological advances and development of digital agents. The majority of research on humancomputer interaction, the subject matter of artificial intelligence, has mainly been approached from a cognitive linguistics or psychological perspective. Limited discourse analytic research explored in depth the turn taking mechanisms of such communication. This paper advances the analysis of digital communication (Arend, 2018) by examining the turn taking patterns of human interactions with the Apple assistant, Siri. Siri is an example of a sociobot, designed to act as a human social media user and attempting to enter our world as a human like agent through communication (Guzman, 2017). Few studies have focused on the gendered nature of the interactions with Siri and its potential for serving humans. The conversation analysis tool, a systematic method for analysing interactions in great detail, will be used to examine to what extent turn taking patterns between Siri and humans are similar to all human interactions. It will also investigate how the jointly produced interactions create and construct Siri’s identity as a virtual assistant. Studying our communication with digital agents can yield significant insights into our new social realities and the ways our interactions with the digital world are evolving. The paper will discuss the potential of human computer-interaction for language learning. TIME/ ROOM
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Building school and migrant family connections in a rural Australian community experiencing cultural and linguistic change Margaret Kettle - Queensland University of Technology
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