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  • Liminality in multitasking: Where talk and task collide in computer collaborations

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    Levy, Mike
    Gardner, Rod
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Gardner, Rod J.
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    This article investigates the effect of computer activity on talk during collaboration at the computer by two pairs of high school students during a webbased task. The work is located in relation to research in the wider world of the workplace and informal settings where multitasking involving talk and the operation of artifacts is known to occur. The current study focuses on how, when two students are working at the computer, talk continues or is disrupted during multitasking. Five examples are described in detail, beginning with a relatively straightforward case of serial multitasking and leading up to an example of complex ...
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    This article investigates the effect of computer activity on talk during collaboration at the computer by two pairs of high school students during a webbased task. The work is located in relation to research in the wider world of the workplace and informal settings where multitasking involving talk and the operation of artifacts is known to occur. The current study focuses on how, when two students are working at the computer, talk continues or is disrupted during multitasking. Five examples are described in detail, beginning with a relatively straightforward case of serial multitasking and leading up to an example of complex simultaneous multitasking. Overwhelmingly in our data, only routine on-screen actions accompany talk, whereas complex actions occur with hitches or restarts in the talk, and true simultaneous multitasking happens on just three occasions in the data set. (Collaborative activity, computers, Conversation Analysis, interaction, language and technology, multimodality, multitasking)*
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    Journal Title
    Language in Society
    Volume
    41
    Issue
    5
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404512000656
    Copyright Statement
    © 2012 Cambridge University Press. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics
    Language Studies
    Linguistics
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/49466
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