Analytic Framework for Multimedia and Multimodal Collaborative Learning

Abstract

This chapter presents a review of existing analytic frameworks for investigating interaction in learning sciences and reveals the lack of an analytic framework, which is applicable for analyzing interactions happening in networked language learning classrooms. In the chapter, the strengths and weaknesses of the main analytic approaches to examining interactions are discussed, and microanalysis of interaction is highlighted. On this basis, the concept of “cross-media adjacency events” and “cross-media responses” are proposed to help identify the semantic and temporal relationship among face-to-face and online interactions and explore in which way small-group interaction occurred more effectively. The proposed analytic approach provides insights into investigating multimedia collaborative interactions in a comprehensive way.