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Drilling the mirror routine: From non‐situated looking to mobile practice in driver training
Author(s) -
Björklund Daniel
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of applied linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.712
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1473-4192
pISSN - 0802-6106
DOI - 10.1111/ijal.12201
Subject(s) - temporality , ethnomethodology , situated , conversation analysis , perspective (graphical) , conversation , task (project management) , situated learning , computer science , trace (psycholinguistics) , reflexivity , training (meteorology) , relation (database) , psychology , human–computer interaction , multimedia , pedagogy , communication , linguistics , engineering , artificial intelligence , sociology , epistemology , social science , philosophy , physics , systems engineering , database , meteorology
This paper uses ethnomethodology and conversation analysis to trace the instructed development of a practical skill (the ‘mirror routine’) in a driving school in Sweden. Focusing the interaction between instructor and student, it applies a micro longitudinal perspective by examining five video excerpts from a total of ≈15 minutes of one driving lesson with a single constellation of student/instructor. Detailed analyses show how, by deploying different instructional resources, instructions are adapted to operate under a range of mobile and infrastructural contingencies, distinguishing between stationary and mobile instructions while considering the reflexive relation between the two. By and large, learning the mirror routine is a complex task in which the participants must deal with issues of instructions, temporality and practical multi‐activity at the same time.