Learning and Meaning Making in Online Tutoring with “Japanese Third Culture Kids”

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Graduate School of Education::Working Papers in Educational Linguistics (WPEL)
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educational linguistics
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2022
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Oyamada, Mami
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This study explores learning and meaning-making processes of transnationally mobile youth with ties to Japan (“Japanese third culture kids”) in online tutoring. Based on 2.5-month research from June to August 2020, I utilize a multidimensional, repertoire approach to classroom discourse analysis to investigate how four focal tutee-tutor pairs engage with one another and their learning. Informed by research on after-school educational spaces involving transnationally mobile youth and critical pedagogy, I argue that the tutoring sessions are co-constructed spaces in which interlocutors utilize their communicative repertoires, with emerging themes including mutual acknowledgement of “not knowing” in the L1/L2 and the potential of connection building between learning content and lived experiences. Findings lead to a discussion on the importance of self-reflexive practices, particularly for for-profit educational spaces.

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2022-01-01
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Working Papers in Educational Linguistics (WPEL)
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University of Pennsylvania
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Spring 2022
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