Textualization and Recontextualization: How CMC can contribute to Critical Semiotic Awareness

Rick KernUC Berkeley

EduCALL Lyon 28 mai, 2010

Textualization

① realigns reality in terms of space and time

② makes an event identifiable as “the same” at each viewing

③ dissociates the meaning of an event from both the participants’ and the author’s intentions

④ extends the importance of the event beyond its original context

⑤ makes the meaning of the event accessible to multiple audiences

Kramsch & Anderson (1999)

Textualized Community Participation

• Forums

• Games

• Virtual Worlds

Forums

Berkeley Lyon

(9:10-10:00 AM) (6:10-7:00 PM)

Mediation

Recontexualization

• Once textualized, language use can reframed, reconfigured, re-situated, re-analyzed.

• This can give rise to new meanings that were initially invisible.

Reviewing Recordings

Does technology “work”?

Implications

• The medium matters.

• TEXTUALIZATION may hold the real benefit of CMC for both student learning and teacher education.

• Textualized interactions can serve a move from communicative competence to critical semiotic awareness.

Merci!